Thoughts on Living the Life Creative
Ace in the Hole - (1951) - Chuck Tatem (Kirk Douglas) is a big time newspaper reporter who has managed to get fired in every big city in the country. He ends up working for a small paper in Albuquerque, New Mexico. On his way to cover a rattlesnake round up he stumbles on just... Continue Reading →
Aging Hippies to young hipsters. Grandparents and grand children. Masters of Industry and Working Class Heroes. Tens of thousands of people all in one place because they love music. Welcome to the Richmond Folk Festival. I really had no idea what to expect. First, when you say "folk music" I automatically think Peter, Paul and... Continue Reading →
A big weekend with festival food for most meals. And I still lost some weight. That's a very good thing. We have also re-crossed the double digit pounds lost line. I'd really like to stay there. That is a huge step forward. This was probably the biggest festival weekend of the year in Richmond, the... Continue Reading →
The Lady Vanishes (1938) - As young socialite Iris Henderson (Margaret Lockwood) journeys back to England to be married to a man she doesn't really love, she makes friends with a kindly older woman, Mrs. Froy (Dame May Whitty), on the train. Shortly the older woman disappears and all the other passengers deny they ever... Continue Reading →
As we continue our intentional exploration of our new home I will, from time to time, offer these special posts. I suddenly realized that we had done a whole bunch of exploring and I was falling behind. Part of the challenge in living in the Richmond area is trying to choose among all the various... Continue Reading →
Well, it had to happen eventually. Amidst all the fun and games something bad had to happen. It was inevitable. The weather continues to be beautiful so I decided to get out and explore on Wednesday. I haven't had the bicycle up and running all year for one reason or another. So I inflated the... Continue Reading →
Spy Handler - Memoirs of a KGB Officer - Victor Cherkashin with Gregory Feifer (2005) - In the last 30 years two spies for the U.S.S.R./Russia did more damage to American security than any others - Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen. Victor Cherkashin was the man who "ran" both of them for the Soviets from... Continue Reading →
OK, back on track. Two things. I weighed myself on Friday just to check on the effect our weekends have on my overall weight. The difference was four tenths of a pound. Now to be fair this was one of our quietest, stay-at-home weekends. We did go exploring and did eat out so it's still... Continue Reading →
1776 (1972) - America's Founding Fathers and the history around the creation of the Declaration of Independence are turned into a musical. The personalities and conflicts that eventually led to one of the greatest documents in American history come together in song and comedy. This is an interesting movie in many ways. Most of the... Continue Reading →
As we continue our intentional exploration of our new home I will, from time to time, offer these special posts. We haven't really had a good exploring adventure for a while. There's this whole "real life" thing that insists on getting in the way. The recent weeks posts about beer got me thinking about a... Continue Reading →
