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Let me tell you about my latest medical adventure . I had heard the term hernia, but honestly, I had no idea what it really was until I was diagnosed by my primary physician. The solution to the problem is a one-day surgical procedure. And I'm assured that I can take care of myself at home. I've had a lot of surgery in the last couple of years. This is the first time I've been required to have a test for COVID 19. My best summer's day was on August 19th. It was a Wednesday and two friends and I met at the Benelux in the 3rd ward at a rooftop table. It was warm but not hot and the humidity was more than tolerable. Even though the company, Barb Katz and Anne Wilde, would have been great in any case the weather and the setting made it perfect. Request: I have been asked to repeat two helpful ideas I've written about in the past in the past. One essay is why you should never cook cabbage, broccoli, or cauliflower.  The other is how to eat cereal that's not soggy ...

I didn't exactly move from Appleton to Milwaukee until August 15, 2019. However, I did stay with a friend here starting on the seventh until I could move into my apartment on the fifteenth. It enabled me for that period of time to begin renewing my friendships in the city. One of those meetings was extremely timely. I got together with Whitney Gould. It would be the last time I would see her. She passed away not long after that lunch we had together. There was a flurry of coffees, lunches, and breakfast meetings as I touched base with as many people as I could. Then it was time for the Milwaukee Film Festival. I know I wouldn't have attended near as many films if I hadn't been in the city. After that, it was seeing some films that were reprieved for a couple of weeks after the closing of the festivals run. As the theater season began it's run, my efforts to publish my theater preview column were rewarded. I got the opportunity to write for Urban Milwaukee.com . Not only...

No, that is not the title of my next manuscript. And yes, If you're trying to keep track, the last chapter of my Novel 26 Women went out last Thursday. Watch this space for the announcement of the beginning of the latest one currently entitled Working Title.  Also, I happy to announce to all of you grammar experts, my friend Pam Frautchi has volunteered to edit 26 Women . So all of those irritating punctuation issues and sloppy sentence constructions will be gone. I will be deciding on how I'm going to publish it. My goal is a reasonably priced digital and hardcopy available in time for the Holidays. Ah, Let me get back to week twenty, or the seemingly never-ending period of quarantine. You readers have to be tired of the recitation of my daily schedule. Nothings changed except maybe what I'm working with my art projects. No, let us talk about what I'm streaming. Many of us loved Michelle Dockeryas the Lady Crowley in Downton Abby. You see her ability to play an Americ...