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A good friend of mine is leaving the country, going home, and she might never come back. She isn't leaving because she fears deportation, rather, she hasn't seen her mother in many years. The older woman is getting on, is in her nineties.  The younger begs her friends to understand: "I have to see my Mommy. If not now, when?"  We know what she means. The littlest things can make you think about parents when they're no longer with you, when you can't just call or visit anymore. FD and I used to have a tradition, inspired in part by my mother. In December she would give me money in a birthday card (out of her social security), and I was to take FD to the opera. Mom, a  Dancing With the Stars person, knew we loved the Lyric, but in those days it was cost-prohibitive; we didn't go very often. The idea, to get us out of our  work-til-you-drop rut, was a good one. The subtext, maybe, think of your mother while you marvel at the theater, the people, the product...

Me Before You: Joj We're already in gift-giving season. My favorites are the intangibles. Y esterday was Veteran's Day in the USA, and coincidentally, I had just finished reading Me Before You ., a book about disability. The story doesn't relabel disability as differently-abled . Will Traynor, before his accident, could do almost anything, but he no longer can.   My daughter-in-law tossed the book at me, had knocked it off in a day. But it seemed sophomoric, at first, took me awhile to get into. But when someone else really likes something, you try a little harder. The word in Hollywood is that  Emilia Clarke  of Game of Thrones will star in a coming movie as Louisa Clark, no relation, and Sam Claflin  of Hunger Games is a likely Will Traynor. So we'll keep the spoilers to a bare minimum.    Chick   lit , sure, but much to take away. Me Before You-Jojo Moyes Louisa Clark is an ordinary enough person, a r eally good person, the type of young a...