Dog Lovers! In 2005 Diane Lane and John Cusack starred in “Must Love Dogs,” a movie about a divorced preschool teacher looking for love. Her criteria for the perfect man is simple. He must love dogs. John Cusack’s Jake shows up on the date […]
Don’t Go See Gone Girl. (Welcome to my first movie review. Mature content and spoiler alerts are coming.) Don’t get me wrong, I love a good murder mystery. I could rave about Agatha Christie’s Ten Little Indians all day. The problem with Ben Affleck’s new […]
What is the theme of READY PLAYER ONE? In 2012, Ernest Cline wrote a book called READY PLAYER ONE. It details a virtual society in which people befriend (and marry!) others they never meet. They get educations from schools they never physically attend. They travel […]
How to Get Over the Death of the Family Dog in 8 Easy Steps Many of my readers know that my family and I lost our little dog Angel last month. (“I Once Had a Dog Named Nasty“). Knowing Angel’s death was imminent, I […]
Bill Cosby! Don’t get me wrong. Like the rest of America, I grew up loving Bill Cosby and the Huxtables. At the time, four-year-old Raven Simone got her start on the show, and I’m still her fan. Theo, Claire. and the rest of […]
also known as… Fitz’s Scandalous behavior. (Note: Spoiler alerts may be coming.) Scandal viewers ask me if I’m Team Fitz or Team Jake. In the past, I had to give it much thought. After all, Jake had murdered my favorite character, James, in cold blood. […]
and give away all the credit. Let’s revisit recent history. On November 4, the Democrats lost power during the midterm elections. A Canadian newspaper expressed shock. Despite the article’s singing the President’s accolades, POTUS took the blame for the loss of power of his political […]
“Heaven can wait,” I told God a month before being cleared of breast cancer. In October I’d received news that I had an abnormal mammogram result. “I am not ready,” I repeatedly whispered, almost like a mantra, to anyone up there who might be available […]
“No one Can Make You Feel Inferior Without Your Consent,” explained Eleanor Roosevelt. I hope President Obama feels this way since whatever he does, whichever way he turns, he gets criticized by Republicans. In 2010, for example, PBO designed the Affordable Care Act. In an […]
Do you know the dangers of political apathy? Updated Information September 2021: Apparently Democrats now do. Thanks to Donald Trump, Americans from both political parties are getting out the vote in record numbers. Democrats learned a painful lesson in 2016. Political apathy results in Donald […]
“Is Ebola a river or a forest?” asked my fearful eleven-year-old students. They were sick with worry. Apparently, our current national panic had infected them. “Fear is contagious, but it is not real.” At least not according to actor/author Will Smith. “It is a product […]
Do you know the Maltese life expectancy? The Maltese life expectancy is 12 to 15 years old. Our dog Angel went over the Rainbow Bridge at the age of 10. He died before the Maltese life expectancy due to heart problems. Angel’s heart was enlarged. […]
My idea for blogging started years ago after viewing the box-office hit Julie and Julia with Meryl Streep and Amy Adams. My attempts at trying to live vicariously through my youngest daughter Rachel proved futile as she rejected my attempts to get her to […]
