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Guest written by our friend Mason Abbott

This morning, after my husband left for work I set our home security family alarm and crawled back in the bed. I had a lot of work to do, so I poured a pot of coffee, grabbed my laptop and got started. I got distracted because I made the mistake of turning on Netflix. I started watching a movie that I put into my instant Queue. It was a really cute movie that came out in 1967. I had already heard about it, but had never seen it. It was a really great movie. It had Sydney Pottier ( a very young one at that) as the lead character. The story line goes that an African American physician meets a young college graduate in Hawaii. They go to tell her parents ( one being Katherine Hepburn). The parents always considered themselves to be very progressive parents. They find themselves in internal strife with their feelings towards their daughter’s impending marriage. It is really a great movie and one that I am going to be watching again. I can’t believe that I haven’t seen it until now! It really is such a great movie. Sidney Pottier is really a great actor.

NFL Football

Contributed by Milford Woods

As a Packers fan living in Atlanta, I love the directtv plan that includes the Sunday ticket. I can watch my Packers every week. I was born and raised in Wisconsin, and I am a die-hard Brewers fan, Badgers fan, and Packers fan. I love the fact that I have access to the Packers’ games every week. For almost twenty years I owned my own plumbing company, but I decided to change careers. I went to school at night and earned a degree in education. I had always thought I wanted to teach, but for years I did not have a college degree. After I earned my degree, I looked for a teaching job wherever I could find one, and a job at a middle school in Atlanta brought my family and I to the south. We actually have grown to love it here, and I am so glad that I made the switch to education. It was really scary changing careers and moving my entire family across the country at the age of fifty. However, I am so glad that I decided to pursue a career in teaching. And even in Atlanta, I can still watch my team play.