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My Queen Is Dead: Elizabeth II 1926-2022

At the very moment the Queen of England was drawing her last breaths, I was on the phone with a former editor, one of my dearest British friends in London. We were talking about Liz Truss, the new Prime Minister.

“But are you keeping up with the bigger story here?” he asked me. We are news junkies, he and I, but for the moment I was flummoxed. “What story?”

“The Queen,” he said. “All the children, Charles and Andrew and Anne and William and even Harry are gathering at her bedside in Balmoral.” Continue reading “My Queen Is Dead: Elizabeth II 1926-2022”

What I Discovered About My Favorite Authors & The Holidays

I’m in the middle of reading a delightful memoir, Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat To The Craziest Campaign In American History by MSNBC-TV anchor Katy Tur.  It’s about the year she spent covering the presidential campaign of Donald Trump. The lovely thing about Katy is that she acknowledges that she got the job while still a relatively unknown TV reporter because no-one really thought that Trump would win either the Republican nomination or the presidency. Continue reading “What I Discovered About My Favorite Authors & The Holidays”