It’s Week 6 of Blogger Idol, and our assignment this week was to write about a hot topic. As you know, I’m pretty opinionated (ha ha, that’s an understatement!) but I ended up writing about something you might not have expected from me. The judges’ scores are so close this week, it’s all going to…
I am such a huge fan of Midge Raymond. Not only did she turn me into a short story reader with her breathtaking collection, Forgetting English (which, by the way, received the Spokane Prize for Short Fiction) but she has helped me find practical ways to squeeze in time for my creative passions through her…
From the minute we saw the trailer for The Big Sick, Michael and I knew we would love the movie. And we did.
Knives Out just may be the most fun movie of the year – which is an odd thing to say about a murder mystery. When popular writer Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer) is found dead in his study the morning after his 85th birthday, it looks like a suicide except who really slits their own throat?…
As I sat watching the vampiric ode to true love and white weddings that dominate the opening scenes of Breaking Dawn: Part 1, I waited anxiously for the honeymoon, pregnancy and birth scenes, wondering how the film would present Bella’s bruised body and horrific pregnancy. What caused me the most trepidation, though, were the imprinting scenes…
