Reading and Roaming
MANHATTAN MUSINGS. It’s been a week for rainy weather, TV, a fine film, and re-visiting some favorite West Village restaurants. After what seems like months of no rain in Florida, we are getting re-acquainted with the wet. Toting umbrellas and slogging through the puddles, we endured or enjoyed, depending on your perspective, two solid …
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We attended a fun concert of Cole Porter songs, explored new dining options locally, and I’ve been sampling a number of different television series. MOTHER’S DAY FUN We four were sans our mothers, but we enjoyed very much the Hot ‘n’ Cole concert at the Sarasota Opera House that afternoon. Featuring six undergraduate musical theater …
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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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