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Cooking and books, books and cooking: my Julie/Julia story

One Christmas season, I was at loose ends.  I was finally, officially divorced after a fairly long marriage.  My sons were working and traveling, or out with their friends. There was a man I’d been seeing, but he was traveling, too, and anyway, he was never going to be My Guy and I [...]

The heart is always story

Note: there are no spoilers of Six Feet Under or Water for Elephants in this post, so feel free to read it. I’m talking about them both, but I’ll be careful not to give anything away.

Over the weekend, I indulged another three episodes of Six Feet Under. In one of them, a major [...]

The Namesake

I didn’t quite make notes on 20 scenes, but I managed to get to the end of Act One. Enough to give myself the reward.  The movie was showing at Kimball’s Twin Peaks, which used to be The Peak Theater when I was a girl.  They’ve divided it into two theaters and now [...]

Secret favorite genres

The sun is shining.  The window guy is coming to fix the shattered window tomorrow morning so I’ll see out of the cave again.  I got out of the house yesterday and ran four miles and went to see my handsome youngest son, and figured out the main question in the MIP, which was [...]