As of November, I’m officially on the Netflix bandwagon. I signed on for the “Gilmore Girls” revival, and now I’m hooked. The series I’m currently watching is “The Crown,” which explores the earliest days of Queen Elizabeth II’s reign. I’m a republican (small “r”) through and through, but I greatly admire the Queen — for her sense of duty, responsibility and service. She does not see her role as that of a privileged aristocrat, but a public servant. That I am in the middle of this series at the same time that my grandmother, Miriam H. Goldberg, passed away, is poignant — because these two great women share so much. Total devotion to their parents, an innate sense of service, a life lived to the […]
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