Helping other people sort out their lives is what she does. Ada Harris (Lesley Manville) spends her days working for others with two hopes to keep her cheerful. The first is the return of her husband who left for the war in the 40s, and the other is to own a Christian Dior haute couture gown.
These past few months have been hectic since the passing of my wife in March, but things are starting to get back to normal. There are fewer tearful moments but a huge void still exists when someone you’ve been living with for 53 years is gone.
Somewhere in the literary landscape that stands between historical fiction and nonfiction there exists the tabloid-like exploitation of celebrated or despised historical figures, and that’s where Bill O’Reilly and collaborator Martin Dugard seem to be at sea in their 2014 publication of “Killing
Being a parent and a policeman can be difficult for a family. Kurt Wallander (Krister Henriksson) is a highly respected police chief in Ystad, Sweden, and a miserable husband to his wife and father to his only daughter, Linda (Johanna Sällström).
The City of Long Beach did polling last week on four possible local measures for the November ballot including a $500 million bond. The proposed bond called the Long Beach Street Bond Measure in the polling is a property tax assessment.
Last week I got admitted to “CLUB COVID,” which used to be an exclusive thing for many Americans. But a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealed the infection rate for everyone nationally has jumped from 34% in December 2021 to 58% in February 2022.
Whether you read, as Rumaan Alan confesses he does, “To get out of my own life, which is boring.” Or, because you have a six-hour wait in an overcrowded airport lounge on a wet Sunday afternoon, here is a “must” read for you.
Created by Aaron Cooley and directed by Susanne Bier, the Showtime series “The First Lady,” starring Viola Davis, Michelle Pfeiffer and Gillian Anderson as a trio of American First Ladies is currently streaming on Showtime.
