One faces the future with one's past 1942
Race prejudice is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on - What America Means to Me 1943
One cool side note - my mother, as a child, remembered Pearl S. Buck - a woman in a housedress, with a lot of kids running about. My mother's family farmed in the area and sold produce to the estate.
Very hard to believe my dad is gone. But at age 92 - it was a long life with a lot of friends and family that loved him. I know you, in blog world, followed his tale as I visited him through the years.
He was the Best!
Memory...is the diary that we all carry about with us - Oscar Wilde
Good memories for all of us - me, David, and Lori. And thanks to David's wife, Cherie - she helped dad a lot.
We did play "Over the Rainbow" at his graveside. He loved all sorts of music, but Judy Garland was a fave. Maybe she's singing in a lounge above, and he has a front row seat.
And blood in torrents pour
In vain - always in vain
For war breeds war again
John Davidson "War Song" 1899
It's getting hot enough here in Texas and it's Memorial Weekend - time for the pool to open
Have a safe and fun weekend
Happy Wednesday everyone
Here's my mom on the left, next to baby brother Rick, and older sister Jane. Uncle Lee is the eldest.
I remember him as a kindly man in suspenders who'd walk me to the five and dime to pick out candy.
I'm a week late, but Happy Mother's Day to all. My mom's been gone over thirty years. She is still remembered and missed.
A Danish reporter, Anneke Jespersen, is found shot in an alley during the LA riots. Now Bosch is working on unsolved cases and this one has bothered him forever. A gun surfaces. It's tied to some other murders. All the players seem to be united from Desert Storm. But how is Anneke connected?
Bosch has to find the "black box" - the one piece of evidence that will bring justice and closure to her murder.
You will keep turning the pages and rooting for Bosch to get the bad guys. Whew!
Yep - we found the box with Charlie in the basement. I've got him in Texas now, and I hope a friend can sell him at a toy show.
So - that's just a few of the farewell stories. More posts to come.
In The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Agatha Christie, once again pulls us into small village intrigue with a unique cast of characters led by the brilliant detective Hercule Poirot. There's a new husband, two stepsons, a housekeeper, and a nurse, along with a best friend, and a questionable doctor who's specialty is poisons.
I can't say more, of course. I am enjoying my revisit into Christie world. So darn tricky. I am fooled every time.
Zendaya (so good, what can't she do?) is Tashi, a former HOT college tennis phenom. Mike Faist is Art, Tashi's husband now and struggling on the tennis circuit. She's his coach and books him in a small challenger match to boost his stats and give him a boost. Alas, he gets to face his former best friend, Patrick - now a nemesis.
The movie goes back and forth in time, rather like a match. Oh, there's quite the little history triangle with Tashi, Art, and Patrick. It's steamy, seamy, and director, Luca Guadagnino, knows how to serve up some HOT action. Slice here, some Love there.
Game, Set, Match - who gets burned?
Photo taken yesterday as I sat on the patio. I did not even get up. Just looked up and the two doves seemed to be talking about our wacky bird sculpture.
Happy Wednesday, everyone.
Canary Girls by Jennifer Chiaverini is well researched historical fiction that engages the reader with a slice of history one might not know. Former cooks, maids, shop girls, and housewives sought better wages and more independence than they ever had. The "munitionettes" worked grueling shifts, handled explosives (TNT), and endangered their health for the sake of their nation. (cover blurb)
Identified by their yellow skin and hacking cough, the Canary Girls prove resilient in their work, friendships, lives, and play in the arsenal ladies football club, the Thornshire Canaries. The bosses wife joins the administration and is a staunch advocate for the ladies.
This book is interesting and entertaining. I cared about the ladies and their situations - worries about children at home, husbands on the front, and managing to live in tough conditions.
Abby Stern is thirty three, comfortable in her plus-size skin, does gig jobs, and has a childhood sweetheart. Good friends, her bike, and a Philadelphia cycling club keep her busy.
cover blurb: Yet Abby can't escape the feeling that something isn't right...or the memories of one thrilling night she spent with a man named Sebastian two years previously.
Abby gets a last minute invite to lead a cycling trip from NYC to Niagara Falls - a chance to get away and think about her life. cover blurb - things get complicated fast. Sebastian is on the trip, and her mother Eileen (body shaming past inflictions) shows up.
Over two weeks and seven hundred miles, strangers become friends, hidden truths come to light, a teenage girl unites riders...and Abby is forced to reconsider everything she believes about herself, her mother, and the nature of love.
Hop aboard this bike trip and see what happens.
Robin Lindstrom is reading an email from her dead husband, Gabe, who signed her up for a dating app a year after he died. She's thirty three years old and has been hibernating at their old Minnesota farmhouse.
She gives the dating world a whirl, opens up her heart to some strangers, makes some weird friends, learns to trust the world, and still loves Gabe with all her soul. However, she knows she won't lose him. She'll gain more in life too.
This book is funny and poignant and Avery captures the horror of dating again, and also the opportunities to engage with others. Can Robin emerge from her cocoon to rediscover all the messy, wonderful, horrible things in life?
Take a chance and read this book to find out.
