Tag: Movies
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day
While many will be out today celebrating St. Patrick’s Day, I will be enjoying a few of my favorite things about Irish history and culture while watching multiple NCAA March Madness basketball games (Final Four – MSU, Kentucky, Villanova, and Duke). Baileys Irish Cream . . . Shepherd’s Pie . . . Irish Pubs .…
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Winter Light (Or Lack Of)
The first month of 2016 is coming to an end and I hate to sound a little crabby like Lucy from the Peanuts comic strip, but this has been one cold, grey month with very little winter light except for the beautiful lighting at an Ice Festival featuring literary characters. I tried to channel my…
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“Stressed Spelled Backwards Is Desserts”
On the days when your inner voice sounds like Minions gibberish, the best cure is “eat cake and carry on.”
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“Gonna Fly Now” – Creed, Rocky and the Holidays
One might wonder what the Theme From Rocky and the holidays have to do with one another, but somehow the holiday music that is usually playing while the house and tree are decorated was replaced with Gonna Fly Now and Eye of the Tiger after going to the absolutely wonderful new movie, Creed, and watching the Spike TV Rocky…
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Try As We Might, We Cannot Stop The Hands Of Time
As we slowly wind down another year, thoughts can turn to the quick passage of time, trying to remember if you achieved any of your New Year’s resolutions, reminiscing over the year’s event or sadness at the passing of another year. After a feverish week with a cold and having flashbacks to 1979 after catching…
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Words and Pictures – Musings About the Movie and Life
The house is quiet for the night and the writer slowly curls in her chair and opens her favorite journal to an empty white page awaiting the pen strokes to cross the pages with intriguing words that will hopefully invite another to join her journey. In the morning after the children have left for school…
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“You Don’t Choose A Life, You Live One” – Musings about Life and the Wonderful Movie, The Way
Very early in the film, The Way (currently streaming on Netflix), there is a scene of a father (Martin Sheen) driving his son (Emilio Estevez) to the airport after the son has made the decision to drop out of graduate school and travel the world. The son asks the father to join him on his…
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Musings about A Walk in the Woods Starring Robert Redford and Nick Nolte
Labor Day weekend offers a wonderful opportunity for nature lovers and adventurers to take a walk in the woods, but if you are like me and have a slight aversion to bugs, a huge aversion to snakes and have Pepe Le Pew and his friend visiting on a regular basis and living in the nearby…
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Thirty Ways to Enjoy September
(Photos by A Curious Introvert) September Skies by The Brian Setzer Orchestra My initial plan was to think of nine ways to enjoy September since it is the ninth month of the year, but due to September being my favorite month of the year and my excitement that it finally arrived, I thought I would…
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Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation Movie Review
It has been almost 30 years since first watching Maverick (Tom Cruise) on the big screen riding a motorcycle in Top Gun and he proves in Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation that not only does he still have it after all these years, but that there also appears to be no signs of him losing…
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