Round 2 of New Year’s Resolutions – but resolutions that are owed to me – are all in honor of the “greatest,” most successful sports organization in the world: The National Football League. I love football. I have been watching, learning, and studying football since I was about 8 years old. Back where I grew…
We sometimes have experiences as children that we don’t realize are not experiences that all children have. Sometimes, we think either every child, or maybe no other child, will go through the same positive and/or negative events. Some of my most treasured childhood memories were gathering with family, aunts, uncles, and cousins, at a summer…
New Year’s Resolution? Okay, I’m listening. I mean, I agree there are a number of things that need work, and – What’s that? Me? Oh no no. Someone’s got that backwards. I don’t need to resolve to do anything. However, here are that need to be resolved not BY me but FOR me. It’s probably…
I’m not a fan of New Year’s Eve shows about lists of the blah blah blah from the past year of blah blah blah. I don’t like Top Ten of anything because it can all change the next day. I don’t like New Year’s resolutions, and I don’t like End of the Year retrospectives. However,…
“Starting a story is easy. Finishing it is not.” – Me. “A story goes like this: Have a character. Put him up a tree. Throw rocks at him as he tries to get down. Eventually, he needs a ladder to get down. But if that ladder doesn’t make sense, your story sucks.” – a college…
Shakespeare, and others, believed that every good story must have an unusual coincidence that the reader must accept, no matter how improbable. I don’t know enough to agree or disagree with Shakespeare, so I’m going to give both him and Kalifornia the benefit of the doubt. A writer, Brian Kessler (David Duchovny) and his girlfriend…
Just as UFO’s seem to only show themselves in rural areas instead of those with a more dense, and perhaps more intellectual population, so goes The First Phone Call from Heaven, when phones begin to ring in Coldwater, Michigan, population not a whole lot. On one particular Friday, a day of the week considered rather…
Most Disney films are fabulous. However, most Disney films have one key moment that you must accept without question, and if you do not, then the movie collapses like an igloo in Aruba. Frozen, adapted from “The Snow Queen” by Hans Christian Anderson (“The Little Mermaid”), is fabulous, but it also has that collapsible moment. …
reblogged from last year – because over 2,000 followers didn’t know me then. and if you did read it last year, it’s a little different, in a bad way. Click “Like” if you want, but I prefer you don’t leave a comment. _________________________________ There’s only one day of the whole year that I truly hate,…
Amendment I Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. It is one of those double-edged swords that…
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