graybrown bird

For Christmas movies I love Bridget Jones's Diary and also While You Were Sleeping. WYWS is funny, romantic, set in Chicago, with a great cast.

Isn't Dennis Morgan a doll in this movie? And I love Barbara Stanwyck.

"McConnell Defends Polio Vaccine, an Apparent Warning to Kennedy": https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/us/politics/mcconnell-polio-vaccine-rfk-jr.html?unlocked_article_code=1.hE4.RljV.-XCejl10Rl7f&smid=url-share

I do feel sorry for that child and for any kid captured nowadays in an unbecoming photo -- The internet is forever. I'm old so photos of my adolescence remain thankfully unseen, but I had a shock when I found out Ancestry has digitized and put online MANY high school yearbooks from my era and even earlier. Yikes!

And it's one reason why restaurants are so noisy you have to shout your conversations.

I saw the eye surgeon for evaluation of my cataracts on June 6 and got her first available appointment to do the surgery: March 12, 2025. This is in a Midwestern city with a major teaching hospital. Covid resulted in early retirements for health care workers of every kind.

I wonder how Snuggles is doing.

Barf.

What a lovely picture of kindness and peace!

Long ago I had a recording of the Scottish tenor Kenneth McKellar singing songs of Scotland. I played it til I knew it by heart, including "My Heart's in the Highlands." I hadn't thought of it in decades until that clue on Jeopardy, and all the words came flooding back to me.

Social Security is NOT going away.

I was sad no one knew about the Katyn Forest massacre. I was shouting "Poland" at the screen but nobody heard me. For many years (decades?) the Soviets said it was another Nazi atrocity but it wasn't. It was a deliberate massacre of more than 20,000 Polish officers and other Poles by Russian forces.

Just sad. Wish I still had a kitty to give me comfort.

Some of my best friends are 75 years old, and they wouldn't be caught dead in that sad gray outfit!

This is very helpful -- thank you!