I took a few days off and went away by myself. I made my 6,000th geocache find (more on that later). My main goal was just being away from people on the […]
Grief: The Never-Ending Journey
Patti Aliventi
Once upon a time there was this website called Epinions. I wrote thousands of reviews there. I love books, movies, and television; mostly science fiction. I'm a gun-totin', meat-eatin' liberal with libertarian leanings who will voice my opinion.
Star Trek: The Next Generation – Peak Performance – How The Borg Changed Federation Strategy
Written by David Kemper and Melinda M. SnodgrassDirected by Robert Scheerer There can be debate about whether or not the first encounter the Federation has with The Borg – an alien race […]
Movie Review – Traffic: The Real “Smuggler’s Blues”
Written by Simon Moore and Stephen GaghanDirected by Steven Soderbergh There’s trouble on the streets tonight,I can feel it in my bones.I had a premonition,That he should not go alone.I knew the […]
Movie Review – Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams – A Disappointing Sequel
Written by Robert RodriguezDirected by Robert Rodriguez When I take my children to the movies, I usually look forward to being entertained as well as my children. Many movies work on two […]
Star Trek: The Next Generation – The Emissary – Worf’s Klingon Love Story
Written by Richard Manning, Hans Beimler, Thomas H. Calder, and Melinda M. SnodgrassDirected by Cliff Bole Any episode that focuses on the Klingons is one that I am probably going to enjoy. […]
Geocaching Road Trip to Waterville Valley
Over the weekend I thought about doing a hike. Three weeks of being home with little exercise due to vacation rentals opening up and being inundated at work made me decide on […]
Star Trek: The Next Generation – Manhunt – Lwaxana Troi and the Betazoid Menopause Crisis
Written by Tracy Torme, Hans Beimler, Richard Manning, and Melinda M. SnodgrassDirected by Rob Bowman In the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation, we were introduced to Lwaxana Troi, the […]
Graduation in the Time of Corona
In March most schools in the nation, and around the world, went to remote learning. At first people were thinking a few weeks, then a month, then it started looking like school […]
Book Review – American Empire: Blood & Iron by Harry Turtledove – The Rise of the Freedom Party in the Confederacy
This is the first novel in Turtledove’s American Empire series, which picks up where his last series, The Great War leaves off. Turtledove writes a genre known as alternate history. This series […]
Star Trek: The Next Generation – Up The Long Ladder – Why the Bringloidis Episode Works Despite Flaws
Written by Melinda M. SnodgrassDirected by Winrich Kolbe This is one of those episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation that sort of leaves me scratching my head. I enjoyed it, but […]
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