Welcome

Hi! My name is Margot. My blog is about the things I love to do. That could be what I'm reading, places we visit, my family, food, or whatever else is happening. I hope you'll stay and visit a while. Contact me by email: joyfullyretired (at) gmail (dot) com.

What I’m Reading

The Confession

Gods In Alabama

Read-A-Longs

Clarissa

My Book Rating System

A = Excellent in every way
B = Very good story
C  = Good/Average
D = Poor
F = So Bad I couldn't finish it

Archives

Lunch And A Matinee: RED

Lunch and a matinee is what retired people do just because they can. Most theaters are empty in the middle of a week-day afternoon. We love it. It feels like we are getting a private screening of a new movie. We are. The last few times we’ve been to the movies it’s been something I [...]

Lunch And A Matinee: Wall Street 2

October is the month when theaters, television and other media feature films and shows that are scary. Usually it’s something paranormal or an axe murderer, etc. My husband and I saw this movie that doesn’t fit into those categories but is still pretty scary. We saw Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps with Michael Douglas and [...]

Lunch and a Matinee: Letters To Juliet

On a rainy afternoon this past week we decide to see a movie. It was my husband’s turn to pick and I was surprised when he picked this one. He looked at the trailer and said, “I think it’s a chick-flick but it looks interesting. It has that actress we like. The one who just [...]

Book and Movie: Murder On the Orient Express

by Agatha Christie Dodd, Mead and Company, 1934 My Rating: A+ Back in the 1970s the movie version of Murder On the Orient Express was a smash hit. After seeing the movie I read the book. I liked both book and movie then and I really liked them now, as you can see from my [...]

Movie Review: Babies

Babies (Bebes) was a whole new movie experience for me. It’s a look at one year in the life of these four babies from around the world: Bayer from Mongolia, Ponijao from Namibia, Mari from Tokyo and Hattie from San Francisco. Aren’t they just the cutest? I just want to give each one a hug [...]