Mary Louise Eklund

Category: Tuesday Thoughts

  • Tuesday Thoughts – Rosemary, The Hidden Kennedy Daughter by Kate Clifford Larson

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    What I know of the Kennedys is the political aspects of the family. Which in their case is a good part about the family. However, I never knew much about Rosemary. I was vaguely aware there was a sister to JFK that was institutionalized. Other than that I knew nothing. Then I was reading an article about this book. Interesting, but what got me considering it was that Rosemary spent most of her life in seclusion in Wisconsin not far from where I worked there. What had me buy it was learning that her father had put her there and told the rest of the family she was dead. It was only after he was incapacitated by a stroke that the other children learned their sister was still alive. So how did a prominent family come to lose and hide one of their own members? A sister of a President? The tale is a sad one.

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  • Tuesday Thoughts – The Intern

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    I’m very picky about comedies but I do like a ‘fish out of water’ comedy. You know the type someone is in a situation they are unfamiliar with but after some funny errors they make friends get into the groove then by their adapting they change the new place for the better and everyone wins. Yay. That is that I thought The Intern was going to be.

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  • Tuesday Thoughts – The Martian

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    Okay I’ll admit it. I was skeptical about this movie. Finally, a friend of mine, Paula, raved about it. She convinced me to see it but alas the moving madness had begun. So it had to wait. Then no streaming of Netflix. Again waiting until we got the DVD to Tennessee then on Red Box rental we finally got to see it. Yes, it was worth the wait. (more…)

  • Tuesday Thoughts – The Richest Woman in America by Janet Wallach

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    When I was a kid in the mid-70s I had a Guinness Book of World Records. It was a small but think paperback of fine print and few pictures. One of the pictures was of a woman in black walking away seen at a distance. It was made in the early 1900s and was associated with the stingiest woman entry for a Hetty Green. She was said to have a fortune but her son lost his leg after she tried to sneak him in to a free clinic to be found out and refused. That she kept her office cold and ate leftover oatmeal for lunch. It certainly sounded like she deserved the Stingiest Woman In the World Record. (more…)

  • Tuesday Thoughts – Money Monster

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    When we were apartment camping without much internet or TV reception we went to the movies every weekend.  We saw several movies that normally I would have passed until they were on TV.  But given the situation we paid the price to get out, sit in chairs other than camping ones, see something other than DVDs and enjoy ourselves.  Money Monster was one of those movies.

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  • Tuesday Thoughts – The Road To Little Dribbling

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    I always look forward to Bill Bryson’s next book. He’s entertaining and educational. Many of his books I’ve read multiple times and walk away each time having learned something new while laughing. Most consider his best to be A Walk In The Woods (the book not the lame movie). I however favor A Sunburnt Country, about Australia, though The Lightning Bolt Kid was awesome. Actually I can’t name one I don’t consider worth multiple reads. So I snatched up his latest the week it was released. The Road To Dribbling is him revisiting the places of his book Notes From A Small Island. I looked forward to seeing how Bryson fared moving back to Great Britain and visiting places twenty years later. Would he prove what Thomas Wolf did in Look Homeward Angel that you can’t go back, or is England timeless and 20 years didn’t make that much of a difference? (more…)

  • Tuesday Thoughts – Sequels and Remakes

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    This summer is yet another summer of sequels and remakes. Now don’t get me wrong, I like many a fangirl look forward to the next episode in some movie sequels. But honestly most would have stood better if left as the awesome first movie they were. As for remakes, I’m at the age now where I’m seeing my childhood shows and movies redone casting the next generation, except Spiderman that gets rebooted what every other year? While some remakes are great fun others pale in comparison. So here’s my take on three from this summer.

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  • Freaky Fridays – Voynich Manuscript

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    In Freaky Fridays we’ve had a where did he go, a who is he, and an open secret of spies. Today we have a manuscript that leaves us what it is and why it is. It’s the Voynich Manuscript. A lovely manuscript with exotic drawings whose origin is unknown along with what language it is written in, if any. (more…)

  • Tuesday Thoughts – Mapheads by Ken Jennings

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    I think those of us who love books come with an affinity to maps too. (more…)

  • Tuesday Thoughts – Podcasts!

    For years I have been into podcasts.  I’ve listened to them on all types of topics – travel, writing, strange happenings, unsolved crimes, and cooking.  Those are just a few that come to mind.  During the camping at the apartment without cable tv and streaming I depended more on books, audiobooks, and podcasts to entertain me.  Here are a few of the ones I’m currently into. (more…)