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  • Coping With The Madness

    To cope with the Madness that is Trump, I am reviving a few well-worn strategies again these days. And gravitating to some new ones. First, as I did during is first term, I no longer listen to or watch the news in any form. I will only read the news in my morning StarTribune. The Read more

  • Cozy Mystery a sub-genre of crime fiction in which sex and violence occur offstage, the detective is usually an amateur sleuth, and the crime and detection take place in a small, socially intimate community  A few days ago, I reviewed here the first Christie book I had ever read, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie. Upon finishing Ackroyd, I Read more

  • Cozy Mystery a sub-genre of crime fiction in which sex and violence occur offstage, the detective is usually an amateur sleuth, and the crime and detection take place in a small, socially intimate community  Even though I am a big reader of mysteries, somehow I managed to get to the age of 64 without having read a single Agatha Christie novel. Read more