During my stay in England in my early twenties, I came down with a second attack of measles. While I was  in quarantine, my fiancé left a novel outside my door, a  favorite of his which he thought would ease my convalescence.  The book was The Daughter of Time, by Josephine Tey, a

One of my favorite movies is the 1986 film, 84 Charing Cross Road starring Anne Bancroft and Anthony Hopkins. The story is based on real events and is a simple one.  Bancroft’s character is a writer who lives in New York as World War II looms on the horizon.  Unable to find some r