I meant to do another post this week (see the headline), but a lot of questions came up while I was on vacation. You might be interested in what they were. (Probably not).

Is Jimmy Dean dead? I said no, because I’d just seen a commercial where he expressed a current opinion. My sister said uh uh to the commercial content. Died a long time ago. She was right. 2010. I’m used to seeing Marilyn Monroe and Grace Kellly hawk items on TV. I guess Jimmy Dean has joined their club.

Are shingles contagious? I didn’t think so. I was half right. Turns out shingles are not contagious, but someone suffering from shingles can pass on the virus to someone else and they will get chicken pox which in turn can give them shingles later in life.

How old was Gertrude Bell when she first met T.E. Lawrence? I decided it didn’t matter. I think I have her mixed up with someone else. My question arose while watching the last three-fourths of Queen of the Desert on TV. Nicole Kidman played the title role. The film was all gloriously free of any desert travel realities (no one got dysentery, no one got sunburned, no one starved, etc), just one lovely trek from one Bedouin camp to the next while WWI was getting started. Nicole Kidman was beautiful, the camels were beautiful, and Robert Pattinson as T.E. Lawrence was about a foot too tall for the role.  

Interested in my books? You can find them here https://amazon.com/author/gretchenrix

They are also on Audible.com.

WHAT I READ THIS WEEK:  Leaving Blythe River by Catherine Ryan Hyde, The Naturalist by Andrew Mayne, Looking Glass by Andrew Mayne, Bound By Your Touch by Meredith Duran.