The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha ChristieMy rating: 5 of 5 starsView all my reviews What a delight to read!! I must admit that about midway, I had an inkling as to whodunit, which really kept me reading. If my idea was right, I needed the motive, which I couldn’t figure, so I occasionally […]
Today marks the final day of Sir Patrick Stewart’s reading of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, which he began reading back in March (the early days of the quarantine). Has it been that long??? I didn’t realize how much I’d come to cherish those short moments of hearing his lushious voice in all of his Jean-Luc Picard glory […]
As the City of Richmond works its way to taking down all of the Confederate monuments and symbols within its limits, the Robert E. Lee Monument, which is owned by the Commonwealth of Virginia, still stands. For now. The General A. P. Hill Monument, property of the city, at the traffic circle in the intersection […]
It’s been a few weeks now since the Confederate statues in Richmond, Virginia started coming down. As the former Capitol of the Confederacy, this is major. Before the city began to formally remove them, several had been yanked from their pedestals, including the figure of Jefferson Davis, from the elaborate memorial to the former president […]
For more than twenty-five years now, close to thirty, there has been a story in my head loosely based upon oral history in my native Richmond, Virginia and then expounded upon more by my imagination. I’ve been ripped from it occasionally to write other stories, which I’ve done, and the original comes roaring back at […]
I was just watching “Pillow Talk” last night and thinking how sad it was that she is gone from this world. She was one of a kind. 🙂
A kind soul…