2018

 2018

West Chester, PA

My age: 62-63

Work - Retired.  I don't work for money anymore.  I don't like to be owned by anyone.

Books.  I used to be an avid reader but I got away from reading in 2010.  I have to force myself back in to the habit of reading every day.  I love to read.

            1- Bones- Tae Myenne Ng
            2- When The Emperor Was Divine- Julie Otsuka
            3- Gifts From The Sea- Anne Morrow Lindberg
            4- A Patch of Blue
            5-  Family Affair- Russell Banks
            6- Beasts in My Bed- Jacqui Durrell
            7- Men Without Women
            8- Fear- Bob Woodward
            9- Born a Criminal- Trevor Noah

New Breweries- I am a beer kook.
           1- Locust Lane Brewery- PA
           2- Kennett Brewing Company- PA
           3- Weyerbacher Brewery- Easton, PA
           4- Earth, Bread, Brewery- Mt. Airy, PA
           5- Chestnut Hill Brewery- Chestnut Hill, PA
           6- Dew Point Brewery- Yorklyn, DE
           7- Sly Fox- Phoenixville, PA
           8- Blue Bell Brewery- FL
           9- Lancaster Brewery- PA
           10- Philadelphia Brewery- PA
           11- Goose Island Brewery- PA
           12- Forest & Main Brewery- PA
           13- Concohocken Brewery- PA
           14- Karst Brewery- MN
           15- Pulpit Rock Brewery- IO
           16- Tobbling Goliath- IO
           17- Grumpy Trolls Brewery- WI
           18- Great Danes Brewery- WI
           19- Stitch House Brewery- DE
           20- 2nd District Brewery- PA
           21- Love City Brewery- PA
           22- Hollow Earth- PA
           23- Midnight Oil- DE
           24- Argilla Brewery- DE
           25- Twin Lakes- DE
           26- Oak Creek brewery- AZ
           27- Anthenium Brewery- MD
           28- Bellefonte Brewery- DE
           29- Post brewery- C0
           30- Vison Quest Brewery- CO
           31- Twisted pine Brewery- CO
           32- Brechenridge Brewery- CO
           33- Riff Raff brewery- CO
           34- Echo brewery- AKA- The Eldo brewery- CO
           35- Soul- CO
           36- Urban Village Brewing Company- PA
           37- Wilmington Brewery Works- DE

Movies 
           1-The Post- Meryl Streep wasn't strong enough in this movie.
           2-Darkest Hour- Churchill was portrayed too much as a kook rather than brilliant.
           3-Ladybird- loved it but the ending feel apart.
           4- The Greatest Showman- a great show
           5- The Shape of Water- what a bizarre movie.
           6- I, Tanya- OMG, I've seen this movie twice already.
           7- Three Billboards in Ebbing, Missouri
           8- Leisure Seeker- a sad topic, a fun movie. Lots of poor acting in the supporting roles.
           9- A Wrinkle In Time- a great fantasy movie.
           10- The Isle of Dogs- I love Wes Anderson
           11- Chappaquiddick- how did Kennedy get away with this crime.
           12- Pope Francis- In His Own Words- this man is humbling.
           13- RBG- outstanding
           14- Won't You Be My Neighbor- outstanding
           15- The Gardener- outstanding; now I want to explore gardens around the world.
           16- Book Club- I didn't really like it.
           17- Sorry To Bother You- this story started out to be very thought provoking and turned out to be silly and creepy.
            18- Three Identical Strangers- what a sad story of abusive power.
            19- Eighth Grade- the sad reality of being 13.
            20- Juliet Naked- this movie was just OK.
            21- BlacKKKlansman- WOW!!!!
            22- Book Shop- a little boring
            23- Colette
            24- A Star is Born- it was not as spectacular as people claim.
            25- Green Book- It's hard to beleive that Blacks were treated this way.

Travels- 

• I traveld to the Arctic Tundra to see polar bears.  But there had been an early frost so the bay was frozen and the bears had migrated 30 miles on the ice.
• I spent a week in FL with Jaye and Dom.
• Clay and I traveld to AZ. We explored the Antelope Canyon and it was gorgeous.
• I traveled to TN to see two women I had traveled with in 2013 through northern Europe. I stopped in KY on the way home to see Lincoln's birthplace.
• I traveled to Wales and the Isle of Jersey.  I particulalry wanted to see Gerard 
• I traveled to MN, IO and WI.

News events: 

• Every day, that dumb fuck Trump embarrasses us on the global front.  I hate him.
• The Parkland school shooting rocked the nation and brought out cries of protest from high school kids around the country. 
• The Trump-Russia probe continued and we all waited in anticipation to use the evidence to get rid of Trump. 
• The #MeToo movement sparked the world and women came out and said "enough."
• Mass shootings, particularly in high schools, have become a weekly event.
• U.S. midterm elections brought so many women to Washington, DC.
• Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination was a disgrace.  He has a drinking problem, a debt problem and groping problem.  But he was still given a lifetime appointment on the Supreme Court.

Family / friends news:

• My gall bladder went bad. So it was removed in November.
• I also have a damn, fatty liver.
• Gus joined the Army.
• I sold my Carpenter's Point, MD house. I was so happy to unload that place.
• My friend, John Elrich, died of cancer.
• I participated in the Women's March in West Chester and I participated in the Gun Reform March in Washington, DC.
• My 45th high school reunion was held in May. One of my classmates died in the winter.  Her private plane crashed and killed her husband and her.