family history place resist travel

Busy, Honking, Clean Boston

In October, I had a chance to visit Boston, Massachusetts, for a work conference. Hubby and I had never been to Boston, so he tagged along and we took a couple extra days to see the city. What a marvelous place! It was fairly easy for us to catch a bus from the airport to get to our hotel in the Back Bay area, not too far from Boston Common and the Charles River. In…

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Hmong Village in St. Paul, Minnesota

October shot by like a cannon ball out of a cannon and now we are in November. There was a lot going on last month, including a visit from Young Son and his family. During their visit, they wanted to check out Hmong Village in St. Paul, a place we had never heard of, which isn’t surprising. Hubby and I have only lived in the metro for a few years, so we’ve barely scratched the…

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The Reality of Aging in Movies and TV

Recently, Hubby and I watched a couple of entertaining movies on Netflix – The Thursday Murder Club and Moving On. The Thursday Murder Club stars Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley, and Celia Imrie as residents in a very nice assisted living facility in England who try to solve cold cases. When a development company threatens to shut down the facility and kick everyone out, they protest and someone is murdered in their midst. Then…

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