As part of my research for my pet fiction project (a novel which is embarrassingly incomplete and scattered for the number of months I've been "working" on it), I've been reading And If I Perish: Frontline U.S. Army Nurses in World War II . This is not an incredible work.…
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Good Sir Dishrag
The sponge streaked over my kitchen counter removing all loose residue, but failed to budge a droplet of what looked like concrete which had adhered itself to the tiles. I flipped the sponge to its rougher side and took a few more passes over the splotch. No effect. It remained…
Summertime at The Stanford - Volume II
Yesterday, I found myself chanting along with a hundred screaming ten and twelve-year-olds. We were sitting in the shirtsleeves of a small baseball diamond on the Sinnott Elementary School campus in Milpitas, and Mr. P was stepping up to the plate. The annual softball match between the Sinnott Teachers and…
Reacting to Jesus Camp
Along with a group of Christian friends, I just sat through the controversial documentary Jesus Camp . The movie profiles a fundamentalist group of Pentecostal Christians on their quest to "teach" the next generation what it means to follow Christ into "battle." The children in this film, all appearing to be…
Adressat Unbekannt
When whispers of the rise of Hitler were born deep in the desolate heart of Germany, they rose to the surface only slowly, aided by the rediscovered "patriotism" in the hearts and minds of post-WWI society. Early in the 1930s, young Adolph Hitler was a gem in the sunken crown…
If I Didn't Care...
If I haven't already established myself as one of THE premier Hopeless Romantics of all time, let this be my moment. Early this year, a movie was released called Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day . It is the story of an unemployed governess named Guinevere Pettigrew (played brilliantly by Frances…
Just because it's witty...
Private Detective Nick Charles is lying in bed after surviving a mugging the night before. Both Nick and his wife, Nora, are reading the morning papers. Nora : Why, Nicky! It says here that the intruder shot you. That's not true. Nick : Hah. I'm a hero. The Tribune says I was…
"I've proven once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb!"
I was perusing the American Film Institute's list of the Top 100 Movies of all time. Now, they may be wrong as often as they're right, but it was fun to recall the reasoning behind their choices. For instance... It Happened One Night , 1934 When you've got somewhere to go,…