The Good
Brian and I have spent the last week away from home and it’s been good. Home is good too, but I’m first in line for any chance to have a break from the norm. There has been mostly good on this trip, with very little bad and most of that badness has had to [...]
Skills at which I did not excel during my youth, which I naively assumed would not be called upon again during my adult years:
Glueing crap to paper plates.
Items of my personal attire which I had never considered might serve as a basis for judgment about my ability as a parent:
Socks.
Essential elements, in my daughter’s opinion, [...]
It’s been months since I submitted anything regarding Films or moviegoing for general consumption and discussion here at Addy, but Hollywood and Christendom are again locked in an epic battle of ideas and I cannot resist.
But before I go there, I think I need to talk about Informed Moviegoing.
See… I know a lot about going [...]
Zane, our first-grade son to me: “Mom, we sure do love Natey!” (our three-year-old)
Me: “Yes sweetie, we do!”
Zane: “Yeah, but if we didn’t, we could let him go.”
Me: “Uh…you mean like a wild animal?!”
Zane: “YEAH!….But we won’t, ‘cuz we love him.”
You have no talent worse yet you have no skill worse yet people secretly know this but no one is telling you even the people who have purchased your work and can’t stop gushing on about it are really just a part of a well hidden secret plan called ‘let’s just be nice to June [...]