Category Archives: Books/Films
REVIEW: Lipstick in Afghanistan
Author, Roberta Gately, worked as an RN and aid worker in Afghanistan and other third world countries. In her first novel, LIPSTICK IN AFGHANISTAN, Gately’s wide range of emotion and experience brings her nurse character, Elsa, immediately to life and makes us fall in love with the warm and courageous people of post 9-11 Bamiyan. These character’s lives must echo those of the real Afghans Gately met while working there. Continue reading
Filed under Books/Films, Health/Medicine
An Easter Book with a Different Kind of Role Model
This heart-felt story cherished by many families during the Easter season, tells the tale of a simple mother bunny and how she became one of the five Easter Bunnies who travel the world bringing baskets of colored eggs and candy to children. With a copyright of 1939, it’s a tale ahead of its time. Continue reading
Filed under Books/Films, Mother-Advice
A Chicago Kitchen in the 1950s
It didn’t work out. I made my children liver sausage sandwiches with mayonnaise, garnished the top with circles of dill pickle, and they squished up their faces and asked that I NEVER serve that again. Well, okay. … Continue reading
Filed under Books/Films, Chicago/My Hometown
Revolutionary Road
Based on a novel by Richard Yates, this intensely wrought film takes us into the psyches and marriage of Frank and April. As the film progresses and we begin to see the conflicts in this marriage, the characaters’ names make … Continue reading
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