Lessons Learned from the Bookshelf
Writing can be many things. For some, it’s therapeutic and some people communicate best by expressing feelings on a blank piece of paper. Blogging began for me as nothing more…
Category: Life
WISHING YOU HAPPY CHRISTMAS 2012
December twenty-fifth. It’s a day anticipated all year long. It’s a time for twinkle lights and sappy sentiments. It’s a day adults calmly and rationally claim is for children. (whoever made…
Happy Thanksgiving 2012, friends! Give Thanks!
Every year, Thanksgiving Day brings up a bounty of memories and traditions that come flooding into our minds as if they happened only yesterday. The day represents something special in…
‘The Blind Side’: An Inspiring True Story
This was on my “to see” list from its debut in theaters. Initially (and ironically, since I’m NOT a football supporter) my family didn’t share my interest. It was then “abandoned” in…
‘PEOPLE LIKE US’ (2012)
No matter how badly we want life to conform to our idea of “perfect,” life has a way of upending our entire, comfortable world to challenge us. That’s the idea…
‘OCTOBER BABY’ (2011)
Every once in a great while a film, with low expectations (and the subject of ridicule), comes along. Sometimes they’re great, and sometimes they’re not. October Baby embodies qualities of…
DEFINE LIFE
4. a corresponding state, existence, or principle of existence conceived of as belonging to the soul: eternal life. 5. the general or universal condition of human existence: Too bad, but life is like that. How do you define life? Does it conjure up thoughts of wealth? Power? Prestige? Is it a job you’ve been working towards? Or…
THE IMAGE ISSUE: LESSONS FROM ‘JANE BY DESIGN’
If there’s one thing you should know about these blog posts that I manage to scribble on paper, it’s that some of their inspiration is from lyrics. I’ll be making…
‘WINNING BALANCE,’ BY SHAWN JOHNSON
There probably aren’t many of us who have don’t know of the pint-sized, heart and gold-medal-winning gymnast from the 2008 Olympic Games. If her name is not familiar from the…