Thoughts on Living the Life Creative
Empire of the Air - The Men Who Made Radio (1991) - Ken Burns delves into the stories of the three men most central to the development of radio and eventually television - Lee de Forest, E.H. Armstrong and David Sarnoff. The growth of Radio into the first electronic, broadcast medium and its dominance of the American... Continue Reading →
It's November. And once again I have dedicated myself to a month long ordeal and creative experiment. It's NaNoWriMo. That's National Novel Writing Month. The goal is to write 50,000 words of a novel in the 30 days of November. This is one of the great passions of The Kid. She is, of course, an... Continue Reading →
What Follows - Edited by April Steenburgh and C. Lennox (2014) - How would an Immortal deal with the End Times? The world will inevitably come stumbling into apocalypse, and They will be there to witness it. Dryads, demi-gods, deities of every pantheon- is it possible for the Eternal to handle an ending with grace? Should it come... Continue Reading →
Some weeks you get a pleasant surprise when you step onto the scale. This past week just felt bad. Can't explain why, it just did. So I was ready for more defeat when I stepped onto the scale. That's one of the big hurdles on this journey. Thinking myself into failure. My exercise wasn't great... Continue Reading →
HappyThankYouMorePlease (2010) - A group of 20-something friends struggle with the realities of actually having to grow up. Each of them has to find their way out of their old understanding of love into something new. Ten minutes into this movie I was pretty sure I wasn't going to like it. Thirty minutes in I... Continue Reading →
"My candle burns at both ends, It will not last the night, But ah, my foes and oh, my friends, It gives a lovely light." -Edna St. Vincent Millay It has been almost six months since we moved to RVA. In that time we have gone a little crazy with all the options of places... Continue Reading →
Urgh. A backslide week. I fell off on my exercise while food was OK. I did manage to stay in double digit weight loss, although just barely. Did a wine fest this weekend and that was a lot of extra calories but not a lot of exercising. I was kind of surprised how little walking... Continue Reading →
The Great Escape (1963) - A group of Allied soldiers with long records of trying to escape from German POW camps are transferred to a camp specifically designed to contain them. They begin to plan the largest prisoner escape of the war. Based on a true story. Welcome to another "spot the stars" movie. The... Continue Reading →
Temperature is much on our minds these days. The temperatures recently have been "cooler", meaning we are no longer near 80. Daytime highs are in the low 70s with overnight lows just dipping below the 50s this week. It's the middle of October. My northern born and bred seasonal timeline keeps thinking it's September. I... Continue Reading →
A very good week. Which is nice for a change. It's kind of like playing golf. Just one or two good shots amidst all the others keeps making you want to come back and try again. It was a quiet weekend, so that probably helped. We did eat out though (and made an absolute pig... Continue Reading →
