Category: Entertainment
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The Circus
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe live less than 35 miles from what became, in 1927, the winter home of the Ringling Circus in Sarasota. The city became known as Circus City and is home to a lot of circus history, museums and culture that are often lost in the much more well known beach culture that… Read more
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A Sunny Place for Shady People
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI drove past a quaint little adult beverage establishment in Englewood a few months ago. The bar, called Will’s Honkytonk, had a slogan on their sign that I loved and has stuck with me. It says “A shady place for sunny people.” Clever and delightful. We learned that Will’s is a… Read more
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Rocket Woman
Reading Time: 4 minutesWhen Elton John and his lyricist partner Bernie Taupin wrote the song Rocket Man, Taupin was inspired by a 1951 collection of Ray Bradbury short sci-fi stories. The stories depicted the complex relationship between technology and psychology, and one story, in particular, was about an astronaut’s love of the stars. The man… Read more
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Grandma and Grandpa On The Farm
Reading Time: 2 minutesMy good friend, Mary, who lives in Missouri, recently lost her mother-in-law, who was a doll collector. Mary doesn’t have much interest in dolls, but she’s always loved this pair. Here’s her note to me about this picture: “My heart has always been on the farm, I loved spending as much time… Read more
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Bad Movies and Other Distractions
Reading Time: 4 minutesI like Hallmark movies. A lot. I like to have them playing on my tablet while I’m putting a puzzle together out on the lanai. Neither one of those activities take too much brain power so I can easily do both at once. It’s a great two-fer activity…exercising my mind and indulging… Read more
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Wordle
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’m addicted to a relatively new, once-a-day, on-line game. Called Wordle, it’s named after its inventor, a Welsh software engineer named Josh Wardle (convenient, huh?). A player has 6 tries to guess a 5 letter word. Feedback is given to players in the form of color tiles. Green means the correct… Read more
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If Money Were No Object
Reading Time: 4 minutesAs I was contemplating subject matter for this week’s post, nothing inspired me. Absolutely nothing. So, here it is, Tuesday morning, 7:38 am, and though I mostly wrote a post yesterday on minimalism, it was (as I mentioned) completely uninspiring. It had no purpose and would be an effort of which I… Read more
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Split Personality??
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn December 31, 1899, Captain John Phillips was navigating the passenger-cargo ship SS Warrimoo when his crew informed him that they were approaching the equator. Captain Phillips had his navigator double check their position, and then adjusted the course and speed of the Warrimoo so that at exactly 12 a.m., the ship… Read more
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New Author, Fun Book Series
Reading Time: 2 minutesI recently discovered an author I’d never heard of before. I ran across a book called While We Were Watching Downton Abbey at a used book store. It was a such a fun read I decided to research the author. To my surprise I found that she’s written more than 10 books,… Read more
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Presidents on the Bucket List
Reading Time: 4 minutesDuring the Obama presidency, I watched (in horror) the country seemed to become more and more polarized by social and political division. I wondered if how I (and many of my friends and family) felt was anything like the mood of the people during the American Revolution. Because of my intense natural… Read more