Little, Brown and Company Publication Date: April 16 2013 From the publisher: A mother and her daughters drive for days without sleep until they crash their car in rural Oklahoma. The mother, Amaranth, is desperate to get away from someone… Read More ›
Month: April 2013
Nesting Swans
Back at the pond, the important business of nest-building continues. It’s family time on the water where hopefully, Mr. and Mrs. Mute-Swan will take care of business and fill their nest with cygnets. Their babies will become the new generation of swans… Read More ›
Those halcyon days of yore or whatever
Now that my high school reunion has passed and I’m no longer besieged by nostalgia from a half century ago, I feel safe in saying it. I haven’t any idea in what world my classmates were living, but I’m sure… Read More ›
Daily Prompt: Cringe-Worthy – Funny you should ask!
As long as I can remember, I have hated watching people make fools of themselves. I was probably no more than 6 when I found myself running from the room at one of many episodes of “Lucy” in which she… Read More ›
‘Oblivion’ is a beautiful yet flawed exercise in science-fiction filmmaking
See on Scoop.it – Movies From Mavens The arrival of the spring marks the slow roll out of the big budget tent pole movies into multiplexes across the globe. Big budget sci-fi epics are really a dicey proposition even at… Read More ›
War and Peace on Whitins Pond
And when the nest building and love-making are done, as the long spring afternoon stretches ahead, Mr. Mute-Swan stretches his wings and heads over to the other side of the pond to harass the Demon Geese who stole his nest. No… Read More ›
Awakenings: The All-American Diner
See on Scoop.it – Traveling Through Time A classic of classics, like baseball, hotdogs, apple pie and Chevrolet…that’s the all-American diner! Often epitomized with an exterior of stainless steel, the diner is unique in its architecture. Then, of course, there is the… Read More ›
Olympus XZ-1 as travel companion
This is the camera I’ve been thinking about. The price is dropping so maybe? It’s just that I have so many cameras. Can I get one more without deep guilt?
SERENDIPITY: SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 