Thoughts on Living the Life Creative
A project for the year. I’ve mentioned before that I’m moving away from New Year’s Resolutions this year. Lots of reasons for that. That doesn’t mean I’m not trying to make progress, show growth, improve myself, whatever phrase you want to use for that kind of process. You’re either growing, or you’re dying. I’ve come close... Continue Reading →
50 WorstMovies of All Time (2004) - Some movies are so bad they are good. But then there are movies that are bad. Truly bad, astonishingly bad. Bad bad. Here are 50 nominees for some of the worst of all time. My goal in these posts is to help you find good movies, even great... Continue Reading →
What I Did On My Global Pandemic, Part 3 We are in the two month range now of near lock-down conditions for me. Had my first full-on bout of “quarantine brain” last week. I was positive that it was Tuesday. Clearly. Tuesday. No doubt in my mind. Until my wife gave me that “What planet are... Continue Reading →
Murder By the Book by Lauren Elliott 2018, Kensington Books – Following the mysterious deaths of her father, and fiancee, Addie Greybourne discovers that an aunt she never knew has left her everything. That includes a family house in a town named for her family. The move seems like a good break with the painful... Continue Reading →
The Company You Keep (2012) - Years ago radicals from the 1960s disappeared. An aggressive young reporter begins to gather the clues on where they went and the lives they adopted. As the events of decades ago come back to life, everyone faces choices again. Directed by Robert Redford ... Continue Reading →
What I Did On My Worldwide Pandemic, Chapter Two In my sixth week of semi-quarantine. I go somewhere other than my neighborhood once a week on average. Once a week to church to run the camera for our service stream, and sometimes to a nearby store. But it’s less than a dozen trips into the... Continue Reading →
Time for another swat at a hornet’s nest. Of all the recent trends in writing, one of my least favorite is how many book series there are these days. They drive me crazy. And I’ve had enough. Series suck. There I said it. And now the flames will descend upon my head, like mystical fires... Continue Reading →
Slaughterhouse Five (1972) - Billy Pilgrim finds himself “unstuck” from time, shifting back to his experiences in a Nazi prisoner of war camp and forward through his life to his abduction by aliens. Directed by George Roy Hill Starring Michael Sacks, Rob Leibman, Valerie Perrine Why I Liked It: An interesting story in a rather... Continue Reading →
Quarantine Survival Post #1 I have been going back and forth on whether the world needs another post on “What I Did On My Worldwide Pandemic”. As you can tell from the fact that you’re reading this, I decided “Why the heck not?” Maybe some small part of my journey will help someone with theirs.... Continue Reading →
Stories Are My Life 