Friday night’s movie fix courtesy of Netflix by mail was a winner, although I’m not sure I have it all sorted out. Last Night in Soho (2021) is the story of a young country girl who is accepted by a London fashion school. She moves into an apartment and begins…

Let the hysteria begin. Will the number of abortions performed in America actually diminish? Meanwhile, here’s an interesting though unsurprising headline from foxnews.com: “Liberal journalists turn on Ruth Bader Ginsburg after landmark abortion ruling.” …

From a nypost.com article by Becky Pemberton, originally published in The Sun, edited by yours truly: In the east Africa country of Malawi, Tusayiwe Mkhondya was a homeless single mom at 18. She soon opened an orphanage. Now 23, she is mom to 34 kids, ages five months to 16…

The last thing I do on my PC each night is visit youtube. I spend less than a half hour and usually start with a photo array video. Yesterday’s included someone whose name didn’t ring a bell despite stunning accomplishments. Born in northern France in 1947, Anny Duperey has been…

From newyorkpost.com through the AP, edited by yours truly: Dmitry Muratov was awarded the Nobel Prize gold medal in 2021 for helping found a Russian newspaper. He was the editor-in-chief when it shut down in March amid the Kremlin’s clampdown on journalists and public dissent in the wake of the…

England’s C.J. Tudor’s first novel, The Chalk Man, published in 2018, was a (London) Times best seller. It has sold in more than 40 countries and been praised by Stephen King. It received the 2019 Barry Award for Best First Novel. A copy recently came my way. Set in a…

From an article by Becky Pemberton, The Sun, edited by yours truly: In 2016 at age eleven, Mikaila Ulmer of Texas scored an $11 million deal from Whole Foods for her lemonade. She found the formula in her great-grandma’s battered cookbook, added an extra ingredient — honey, inspired by being…

This week’s Friday night movie fix, courtesy of Netflix by mail, was an interesting look at a NYC literary agency through the eyes of a young aspiring writer hired as an assistant, My Salinger Year (2019). I was unfamiliar with its star, Margaret Qualley, although she appeared in Once Upon…

Headline from nypost.com: “Stone (fruit) cold Ukrainian farmers poison Russian troops with cherries: mayor.” Cue the Runaways: “Cherry bomb! Cherry bomb!” … Also on the warfront, headline from newsmax.com: “Ukraine Slowly Regaining Territory in South.” May it continue. PC theater of the absurd, snippet from an NYP editorial about an…