Recent content by hollygrove

I remember watching her live in Vegas at Skate America and being shocked at how painfully skinny she looked in person. Seeing her later on TV and in photos from that event she just looked slender, but to me there was nothing healthy about her appearance in the arena. She sure was hitting her...

I'm only part way through reading Pour Ne Pas Disparaitre, but so far Papadakis does write a bit about the arrangements, budgets, and obligations she encountered in the French system at Lyon and Montreal. The IAM system seems mutable, as V&M have some different options once they arrive. Again...

I read Gracie's book last year and now, with very out-of-date high school French, I'm about halfway through Pour Ne Pas Disparaitre. So far, I'd agree completely with your assessment of their similarity. I'm finding Gabi's prose surprisingly accessible for a reader like me, who hasn't thought...

I found (USA) that I could not copy the Kindle text, even a few words, and paste it into Google Translate. On the other hand, the writing is pretty simple so far, and I'm finding it fairly easy to read with some occasional vocabulary lookups.

Amar Akbar Anthony is an Indian oldie from the 1970s. Three brothers are adopted and raised as Hindu/Muslim/Christian by different families. Lively music and loads of plot lines. The theme is let's all of us (India) try to live in harmony. This was a hit back in its day. It's on Youtube...

No one else has mentioned IOLs so far. As of 2015 my vision was very impaired by cataracts, and I had both prescription and cheap glasses in every room, purse, etc. I switched to a different ophthalmologist, and he mentioned that I was a good candidate for the multifocal (IOL) lenses in both...

I needed to go out to farm country and use the "good" binoculars, not the little binoculars I've usually taken to Skate America. But once I found a safe place to pull off the road and view the northwest sky, I wasn't alone. Eventually there were six of us at that spot looking underneath the...

We've been to every Skate America since 2003 except for that Thanksgiving year. Orleans Arena offered a suitable size and comfortable temperature, plus friendly and helpful staff. We stayed off the Strip and rented a car, so we appreciated having plenty of free and convenient parking...

Got my tix - section 119. We really enjoyed Everett and the local people on the last visit and are happy to be returning to the area.

Maybe 10:00 a.m. on West Coast time, so 1:00 p.m. EDT? I hope . .

Went to Turkey, loved it, came home and signed up for Turkish at the community college. Four semesters and innumerable discussion groups later, it's the best idea I could have had in retirement. The learning curve took two years because Turkish has case endings, agglutinations, vowel harmony...