Author name: judyann dutcher

Downton Abbey

Enough time has passed since the end of Season 4 so the emotional drama has subsided to a memory until the advertising spins up for next season. The first time I heard of Downton Abbey was at the 2012 Golden Globes when it won Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television. At that ceremony, […]

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Speciation

I chaperoned my kids at a math competition where they stayed in the dorms of UNLV. We all ate in the dorm cafeteria and discovered that along with a math competition, there was also a cheerleader camp in residence. These cheerleaders weren’t as abundant as the math geeks but they stood out against the sea

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Molokai

Molokai by Alan brennert is a touching story about Rachael, a 6 year old Hawaiian girl who contracts Leprosy i.e. Hansen’s Disease, is removed from her family and sent to a leper colony on Molokai. One would think that she was sent there to die but it was on Molokai where she really began her

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Satisfying Pop

Walking on the beach. Walking on the seaweed washed up on the shore, the air bladders give a satisfying pop when I walk over them. The pop is not unlike the the jacaranda pop as I ride my bike over them. It’s the same satisfaction I get from popping packing bubbles. I bet there’s a

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Sookie’s Happily Ever After

Dead Ever After by Charlaine Harris is the 13th and final book in her Sookie Stackhouse Vampire Mystery Novel series. Highly anticipated, the fandom speculated on who Sookie was going to “end up with.” As with all of the Sookie books, there is a murder which needs to be solved but this time, Sookie is

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