Do you ever have those days when the unexpected seems to transform your point of view? I had one of those days yesterday. It started at Masters Swim practice when there was a substitute coach at the workout time I … Continue reading
Category: films
Transformed
UpDate
So much is going on and no time to blog (blogging in my head certainly does not make it public). So I’m opting for a summary of some pretty fantastic times with pictures of some of the notable events. The … Continue reading
A Sentence
Since Christmas, we have watched a slew of movies which I’m going to list. I challenged myself to write a single sentence about each movie, so here goes. In reverse chronological order we have seen: Gran Torino: 78 year old … Continue reading
Heavy Viewing
The extra long weekend allowed lots of time for movie watching. Here are my thoughts related to the five DVDs that we watched, none of which were light viewing. Though we thought we had chosen at least two films that … Continue reading
Wild & Scenic
Columbia College hosted the Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival, a traveling festival that included 6 hours of films from the annual festival in Nevada City. We went last night but didn’t make it through all the movies which lasted … Continue reading
Air Quality
The smoke from a large number of wildland fires is playing havoc with my ridiculously fragile lungs. Over 300 fires started a week ago when we had lightening storms all over northern California. Soon there was a cloud of ghastly … Continue reading
2 More Movies
Late last year, I found a list of movies that every writer should see in The Writer magazine. They were each about writers and their creative process and how their personal situations influenced their craft. Some were about real people … Continue reading
Measuring March
21 days of influenza. 11 days of not leaving home. 4 birthdays: Cindy, Gianna, Jennie Lou, & Kyle 8 books read: Atonement, The Jane Austen Book Club, Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Sticky Fingers, Emma, Second Nature, A Year of Living … Continue reading
Cold Sore Flashback
A couple of days ago, my body started growing a humongous cold sore, bigger than any I’ve HAD since I was in my 20s. In fact, the previous cold sores I’ve had in the last 30+ years were tiny ones, … Continue reading
Movies
It was cold in Nevada and we were there for five days, so we watched a lot of movies. I’m a sucker for sentimental, so while these films don’t hit the top of the mark in terms of terrific-ness, they … Continue reading