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Category: entertainment

  • Know & be Known

    Know & be Known

    Now that I have been published for a minute, someone has invited me to teach a group of seniors about writing memoirs. This blog notwithstanding, I’ve never published one, but I have read a ton of them.  To get your memoir published these days, you have to have one of three things; already be famous,…

  • Newsies Now

    Newsies Now

    My daughter’s theater aspirations has put me on a broadway musical journey these last few weeks. Last night, we watched the filmed stage version of Newsies from 2017, not the 1992 Christian Bale version. Le sigh!  I remembered singing and dancing, but I forgot about the proletariat struggle. If you are foggy on the story…

  • Godspell

    Godspell

    Vulture published an article last week interviewing Victor Garber, the actor who played Jesus in both the Toronto stage play and the Hollywood production of Godspell in the early 1970s. Apparently the stage cast included Eugene Levi, Martin Short, Andrea Martin, and Gilda Radner, several of the famous funny people that I grew up watching…

  • Supergirl Movie

    Supergirl Movie

    On the insistence of my youngest, I took my two daughters to a matinee of the new, live action Supergirl movie. Unfortunately, we were disappointed by this film. It’s very dark and it spends the first hour of the movie making Supergirl pretty unlikable. Nothing feels fresh: it’s 1/3 Handcock, 1/3 John Wick and 1/3…

  • Body of Work

    As I am approaching my fiftieth birthday this year, I was disappointed to see that my weight that had gone down from focused intermittent fasting, has crept back up. For two years, I checked the clock before I let myself eat. Then I quit looking because, honestly, I didn’t have the bandwidth.  Last month was…

  • Artificial Reality 

    There is a new South Korean show I am intrigued by. In English it is called, Boyfriend on Demand. The premise is a single woman whose time is taken up working and commuting gets an opportunity to try a virtual reality dating app, basically an AI boyfriend machine. At first it’s just fantasy fulfillment: rich,…

  • H-A-double P-I-N-E-double S

    Our women’s study is going through the “Every Thought Captive” book by Kyle Idleman. This week we are reading about the pleasure fallacy where people pursue things that make them feel good, only to find themselves worse off. He’s right, in an attempt to make ourselves feel better we binge eat, binge watch, and binge…

  • Children’s Stories

    Something fun to do in Oregon is to visit the Enchanted Forest outside of Salem. Built into a wooded mountain side, kids can interact with various Grimm fairy tales before their Disney glow-up. I went as a kid and I’ve taken my daughters several times as well. They have a cute Humpty Dumpty, scenes from…

  • Out of the Dark

    I am turning forty-nine this year, my last year before fifty and I am going through a big change. These last few nights I have awoken in the middle of the night, cooking from the inside out.  Scientists call it perimenopause, which is the second big change for women. I remembered my first change during…

  • Of Men & Gods

    If you’ve gotten a glimpse of Netflix’s Kaos and Jeff Goldblum playing Zeus, you’re in for a wild time. It’s a modern retelling of some of the Greek and Roman myths. It would even be a comedy, if it didn’t all feel so familiar. Hera and Zeus live on a mountaintop mansion that looks like…