The Kindness of Strangers seems to have slipped into existence with few people noticing. Except for a couple savage reviews, you won’t see much about the film online. The movie was released in December 2019, just before Covid kneecapped the world. Between that and the Rotten Tomato score of 31%, I don’t think it has […]
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PIVOTING INTO 2022 0:00 / 0:00 Pivoting into 2022 This past Thanksgiving, all our grandkids were visiting. At one point, three-year-old Bea and four-year-old Hank decided to prepare for an imaginary beach trip. Hank packed several face masks into his yellow leather bag and Bea jammed a bunch into her blue vinyl
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SWAN SONGMOVIE REVIEW Last night, I needed to take a vacation from real life, so I watched a movie called Swan Song. Mahershala Ali and Naomie Harris play married couple, Cameron and Poppy Turner. Unknown to Poppy, her husband is about to die. Cameron meets with Dr. Scott (Glen Close) to discuss a radical option,
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JACK’S GRANNYA STORY FOR KIDS OF ALL AGES 0:00 / 0:00 Jack's Granny Some grannies knit and some grannies bake bread. But Jack’s granny plays the banjo. Jack’s Granny settled into her rickety rocking chair and began to fiddle with the tuning pegs on her banjo. Both Jack and his granny could hear excited
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MY BRIEF LIFE OF CRIME Jean De La Bruyere says, “If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is their father.” This was true in my case. My first brush with crime happened when I was eight years old. At the time, we lived across from my school, Smalley Elementary. Weekdays, as
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MY MONTICELLOBOOK REVIEW Jocelyn Johnson’s novella, My Monticello, is a soul-nourishing story that begins on a spring night in the near-future after the Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville in 2017. White nationalists have returned to town. They are burning down houses and brutally attacking people of color. Da’ Naisha Love, a descendant of Thomas
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ESCALATING Photo Courtsey of Derek Story 0:00 / 0:00 Escalating I’m not a fan of escalators. Right after our third son was born, my children and I ventured to a shopping mall in Louisville, Kentucky. We wound up on a steep escalator. I held my hefty infant on one arm and an umbrella stroller in
LIFE IN MY SURREAL WORLD Photo Courtesy of Korpa 0:00 / 0:00 Life in My Surreal World Operating in the real world has never been my strength. I have trouble wrapping my mind around time and space and material objects. There is a certain fluidity to all three for me, a concept which both philosophers
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A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION Photo Courtesy of TR Photography 0:00 / 0:00 A Step in the Right Direction Lemony Snicket says, “There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational—or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don’t.” Many of my fears make no sense. On the other hand, there
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LILY’S PROMISEBOOK REVIEW Lily’s Promise is a great read on so many levels. The book’s namesake, Lily, has just lost her beloved father to an illness that taxed family’s resources. She and her mother, an immigration lawyer, move to a smaller house in a different neighborhood. Lily had been home schooled, taught by her father.
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