I’ll confess. I love listening to others speak with an accent. I like them all. Since I was very young I’ve had friends from other countries—Norway, Germany, Australia. My mom’s family had roots in New Orleans, Louisiana. One of my …
Christmas is the time of year for family and festivities. It’s when company comes and stays for a few days… maybe a week. When you’ve eaten everything in the house and played every board or card game you know, it’s …
This week kicks off the beginning of the holiday movie season. Every year about this time we see a new crop of Christmas-themed movies for children and families. The networks also bring out the holiday classics. Christmas movies are so …
I love movies! I do. From the opening sequence of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, my very first movie outing, I was hooked. Forty years later, I still spend a considerable slice of my life watching, talking about, analyzing, quoting, and …
My best friend and I were thirteen and fourteen years old. Our parents were out of town and we were spending the night at her house, being watched by her older sister, who had a date that particular Friday night. …