Reading and Roaming
Being socially engaged with others is a key to good health and perhaps a longer life. We entertained very good friends recently and I spent several days inhabiting J. D. Vance’s head in his disturbing and engrossing memoir of growing up in Appalachia. FRIENDS As is certainly evident in Vance’s memoir (noted below), we don’t get …
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ROYALS—WATCHING AND READING I read so much about the Netflix series, The Crown, while I was in London, I couldn’t wait to start watching it once I returned home. And now, I’m enthralled! It is so well done, elaborate, lavish even, and the family dynamics (exiled Duke of Windsor, Prince Philip’s role in their …
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BACK TO SCHOOL It’s September, the first day of fall is upon us, and everyone who’s going back to school is there by now. I always liked going to school and happily anticipated the end of summer, the cooler days of autumn, and the challenge of new subjects, new teachers, and sometimes even new friends. …
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GYNECOLOGY A LA “MAD MEN” We happened upon a PBS Mystery series last week called “Breathless.” A three-parter set in England in the 60’s, it features a set of louche and callous medicos who practice obstetrics and perform back alley abortions. The women are all either beautiful or flighty (or treated as such) and the men …
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