Author name: judyann dutcher

Last Letter from your Lover

My book club picked this romantic novel of time-crossed lovers. Two thirds of the book is set in the early 1960s England where married Jennifer meets journalist Anthony. Jennifer, married to an emotionally cold asbestos magnate, falls in love with emotionally open Anthony who sends affectionate letters to their secret PO Box. Anthony writes a […]

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Hobbit Uno

Peter Jackson knows Middle Earth. Or at least he’s created a world where we believe it’s Middle Earth. I was relieved when Guillermo del Toro dropped out of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey so Jackson could do the film his way. Part 1 of this adventure covers a mere 6 chapters of the book but

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Mountain-like

I told my kids that one day over winter break I was going to take them on a trip. The last time we did something like this, we went to Palm Springs Tramway and played in the snow. It required us to get up at 3am to catch our scheduled tram up the mountain. Son

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Hiccup

I rarely make potato salad from scratch. It’s so prevalent at pot lucks and so easy to buy pre-made at the store, why purposely make it? But what do you do with four bunches of dill? It’s a lot of work to make good potato salad and it was very tasty. Hiccup. Hmmm, I got

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Nearly Everything

Bill Bryson’s A Short History of Nearly Everything covers nearly everything in the “real science” category (Daughter’s definition.) Since I was a social science major, all of my “real science” classes came in this historical package. Reading this book was a review of every science class I took from elementary school through college. When flipping

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