Scramble, scramble, scramble… Happy Holly-Daze! I hope you’re enjoying whatever flavor of winter feasts and festivities you happen to celebrate. In my house, we have traditions that last pretty much all December and through the New Year. Some of which are related to nom, nom, nom, noms. (I’ll make every attempt to share pictures when […]
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Musings and Opinions
Listen, Then Get Off Your Bum
Before I begin today’s passionate rant o’ fiery-ness, here’s what started this blog post. A comment I made on Facebook saying: If I measured my success as a writer based on everyone else’s opinions of me, I’d give up right now. I don’t. I’m not writing for validation. I write because I love doing it […]
A World Ends… NOT!
I’m in stealth mode yet again today because I’ve had my fill of emotional roller-coaster rides brought to you courtesy of Facebook, Twitter, and the news. I love to read history; it’s fuel for characters, true… but I’m of the mind that old adage “truth is stranger than fiction” is eerily accurate. Supposedly, the world […]
The Hobbit An Unexpected Journey Review
I promised you a review of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, so here it is! If you followed my blog last week, you know I spent a few days training for the midnight showing at our local Sundance theater. I bought the tickets COMPLETELY by accident; my brain misplaced the p.m. with a.m. So, there […]
Swords and Dragon Gate
Here it is, a week later, and I’m still in awe of Tsui Hark’s The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate. Shot in 3D, I streamed this on Netflix so I saw the 2D version. Jet Li lends his talents alongside a large cast (I’d recently seen Li in The Expendables 2). This is a wuxia […]