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Category: entertainment

  • Back to the Past

    Netflix has the movie Back to the Future playing for the last few days of September, and I watched it last night. It originally came out in the Eighties when I was in third grade.  It was a big deal, everyone was talking about it.  Back then, it was a straight forward adventure story of…

  • Faux Pas

    I thoroughly enjoyed the Olympics this year. One of my favorite parts about the games was the diversity of people participating and the variety of activities.  What I want to talk about is one of the controversies of this year’s Olympics. Not that controversy, I did not watch the opening ceremonies. Instead, I want…

  • Idioms

    Good morning class! Today we’re going over some useful idioms. These are colorful phrases that people use, sometimes describing their life or even to comment on yours. We will talk about each phrases’ literal and figurative meaning and whether or not it’s a backhanded compliment. Let’s get started. Ducks in a row. “It looks like…

  • Spring Broken

    There is some expectation built up around spring break. Maybe from television and movies, but it’s been hard week as a Stay at Home Mom. I had the kids home from elementary school and preschool with only one car that Tim required for his daily commute. Our trusty Accord has been spending its break camping…

  • Seaside

    The Oregon coast was made for kids and dogs. Where Cannon Beach has an aesthetic of Coastal Grandma, with its blown glass art galleries and overpriced surf and turf eateries, Seaside is 100% State Fair with its painted carousel and Pronto pups. After a quick bite of pizza, kids made a beeline to the beach…

  • Bachelor Blues

    One of the things that Tim and I do to bond is to share a show together. The current one is a comedy called “The Bachelor.” The premise is that a man tries to date twenty women at the same time. I can not believe this show is still going. It has been on for…

  • Fifteen Minutes

    Let me tell you about the time I was a little bit famous. When I graduated with my shiny journalism degree in the late nineties, the world was in the middle of a massive transition from paper to electronic mass communication. For local papers, it meant people no longer paid for news that they could…

  • Silence

    I just watched the 2016 Scorsese film about the persecuted church of Japan in the 17th century. Historically, the number of Christians in Japan fell through direct, intensive violence. Many of the conversions had come through Portuguese Catholic missionaries who not only brought faith, but also emphasized Western practices, traditions and language that threatened the…

  • Halfway Out

    I managed to listen to Jinger Duggar Voulo’s book “Becoming Free Indeed” while being a stay-at-home mom this week. Billed as a tell-all book, it barely covers any of the behind-the-scenes of the Duggar household, but instead is focused on being a takedown of Bill Gothard’s Institute of Basic Life Principles. The audiobook is read…

  • Falling From Fame

    I keep hearing people talk/complain about cancel culture and I think there is a lot of nuance being lost in the conversation. First let’s sort out the criminals. Sometimes a popular or influential person commits a crime so they lose both legal status and popular status. The compounding factor is that they may have leveraged…