FLYING ATTACK OWLS Courtesy of The Daily Progress 0:00 / 0:00 Flying Attack Owls As a child, I never wanted to sleep in a room with an open closet door. When I was about five, my parents took us to visit friends in Buffalo, New York. I bunked with Jimmy, also about five, who pointed […]
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IF BEALE STREET COULD TALKMOVIE REVIEW Every Friday, I read the movie reviews in The Washington Post.The articles usually help me find great films and steer away from bad ones, with one notable exception: Adam Sandler’s Punch Drunk Love. They liked it. I loathed it and loath is too nice a word for how I
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ON THE ADVISABILITY OF SWEARING 0:00 / 0:00 Swearing Recently, after four attempts, a TSA agent failed to collect a non-fuzzy image of my fingerprints. No matter how firmly I pressed and no matter how I positioned my hand, the device would not record my prints crisply. Maybe I should be grateful. My inability to
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IF I WAS YOU 0:00 / 0:00 If I Was You In my hip hop class, we dance to a Meghan Trainor song whose lyrics are: “If I was you, I would wanna be me, too. I would wanna be me, too.” People perk up during this song. We’re more likely to strut, rather than
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FROG IN HER THROAT 0:00 / 0:00 Frog in Her Throat I used to phone my grandmother every Saturday morning. Although Benedetta died few years ago at age 106, on some Saturday mornings I still wake up ready to dial her number. We’d start out the same way: “How are you, Grandma?” “I’ve got a
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MAGICAL THINKING 0:00 / 0:00 Magical Thinking I am a big fan of magical thinking. The technique has carried me through many a rough patch in life. Recently, I was having a bad day. They say bad events arrive in threes. That day, my bad incidents numbered nine. Nothing truly horrible occurred. However, if I
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TEN TIPS FOR WHEN YOU’RE HOME SICK 0:00 / 0:00 Ten Tips For When You're Home Sick When you are sick, don’t watch the nightly news. If you do, in addition to your current illness, you will wind up developing an ulcer. Also, don’t view Stranger Things when you’re feverish. You will regret it, unless
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THE DRESSMAKERMOVIE REVIEW The Dressmaker is a viewing experience you may want to miss. I normally love weird and quirky films, but this Australian movie ventured into the nether regions of weird and quirky, and not in a good way. Kate Winslet plays Tilly who, as a
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WHILE THERE’S STILL MUSIC LEFT 0:00 / 0:00 While There's Still Music Left This past fall, my ninety-one- year old father attended my nephew’s wedding in Burlington, Vermont. At the reception, while enthusiastically jitterbugging with another relative, hands did not connect. My father launched into space. Unfortunately, he did not experience a gentle re-entry and
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MANCHESTER BY THE SEAMOVIE REVIEW How do you live out the rest of your life after your negligence causes the unthinkable to happen? Even though I saw Manchester by the Sea a couple of weeks ago, certain scenes still keep running through my mind. The movie is about forgiveness and the extension of grace, but
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