It's Friday, March 27, 2020. We decided to take out dinner from our favorite, local restaurant, the Oysterman, Duxbury!!  Let's keep our local restaurants in business during these trying times!!!  

I just finished reading Tom Hanks', Uncommon Type -- Some Stories, and thought I'd write a review. This is a collection of short stories, all involving some reference to a typewriter, in detail or just fleeting. Most of the typewriters he writes about go clackety-clack...

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I am posting this video as inspiration to any 50+ year old woman who is feeling less confident about herself as she grows older. I have been fascinated by this woman who became a model at or near the age of 50, with her mane of gray hair and her supermodel bone structu...

One journalist's joyous trip to Shiraz, Iran. [Please note that some journalists have not had the same experience}. I had some of the same wondrous experiences of Iran during the summer of 1978, but did not possess such a gorgeous accent or set of brilliant white teeth...

A weekend binge read (I do that often)! I loved this novel. I felt so connected with all of the characters, except one (read it and you will see, which one I mean -- which character left and never returned). Set in the 1970s through 2017, the novel chronicles the lives...

Love Kylie and her videos. My next trip, to Italy.

I picked up this novel (well, downloaded it onto my Kindle Paperwhite) because it was listed as a best book of June 2019. I finished it in several hours while sitting in a striped beach chair in the Atlantic, trying to stay cool from the day's searing heat, slathered w...