Author name: judyann dutcher

Bel Canto

Bel Canto is the 4th book I’ve read by Ann Patchett. A soprano is commissioned to sing for a Japanese businessman in a South American Country. At the gala, terrorists invade the grounds in hopes of taking the country’s president as a hostage. Since he didn’t attend the event, the terrorists took the diplomats and […]

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No TV

When there is an addiction, the person who has the addiction sees their behavior as not a problem. It’s the people around the addict that has a problem with the addictive behavior. I have been told that I’m a TV addict. I would like to protest. I have had a lifetime of being sleep-challenged and

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Turtle Heaven

We discovered our turtle liked strawberries. When there would be spoiled strawberries, I’d toss them by her pool and they would disappear. I thought the birds or dog had been eating them. Then one day we saw turtle walking with a berry in her mouth and another time with her swimming with one in her

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Prometheus

I had heard that the 2012 movie Prometheus was bad and had avoided it until the one Saturday when there was nothing else on. Then I decided to watch it as one watches a train wreck. As I watched the movie, I wrote notes about my observations. This last point gave me pause. Sure enough,

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Parenting the Parent

Getting ready for National Jamboree, the kidss received ~30 patches each to prepare their different uniforms for  travel. I could have been a mom who did all of the sewing myself but 1. I didn’t want to sew on so many patches and 2. There was no reason they couldn’t do it themselves. Knowing that

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