My arm is still hurting me so I might have to try and get a cortisone shot. Hope that works. I don't want to go to CA with a sore wing, as Phil always called it. And taking all this pain med (OTC)is making me nauseated.
Sorry to see PLURIBUS end for the year. But glad THE PITT is coming back.
Kevin did well his first semester at Madison. He is still hoping to design computer programs or games but so are all his classmates.
What about you?
FROM JEFF
Weapons was an unusual movie, not what I expected until the last thirty minutes, which were terrifying. Much funnier than I expected--for a while.
Sorry that PLURIBUS (Apple) is ending its first season this week. I really related to the central character. Just started a TV version of Anne of Green Gables. I have never read or seen it before. Off the Poirot kick. They run together after a while. I am enjoying Tony Shaloub's show on bread (HBO). Still rewatching MAD MEN. No doubt for me it was the best show ever penned for TV.
Hey, Kevin is taking me out to lunch today. What a great present.
Reading The Correspondent by Virginia Evans I don't usually like epistolary books so it may not work.
What about you? Done your holiday shopping?
The Return of the Twelves by Pauline Clark
Written
in 1962, this was a book I read to my children. I usually chose books
with a fantastical element since they didn’t choose such books on their
own.
Together we read Tom’s Midnight Garden, Tuck Everlasting, The Indian in the Cupboard and so on.
The Return of the Twelves is a favorite.
Max
finds a box of twelve toy soldiers in the attic. The soldiers come to
life at night and Max eventually learns the soldiers were the playthings
of the Bronte children who endowed them with a magical ability to come
alive. (Branwell Bronte actually wrote a story about his soldiers called
“The History of the Boys”).
Tying the story to a real and literary family was especially delightful to me and leads young (or old) readers to an interest in the Brontes. Highly recommended.
