The series The Twilight Zone grew out of Rod Serling’s dissatisfaction with the network’s interference in programming while he worked on dramas for Playhouse 90. He couched what were often moral quandaries […]
DVD Review: The Twilight Zone: Volume 6 – Death, Four Times Over
Book Review: The Black Ice by Michael Connelly – Entertaining Detective Fiction
Gritty police detectives who sometimes operate outside of department boundaries are a favorite character in crime novels. Sometimes they are too much of a favorite character, and it’s hard to strike the […]
Series Rewatch – Outlander: Season 1, Episode 1 – Sassenach – Exploring Outlander’s Time-Traveling Story
Written by Diana Gabaldon and Ronald D. MooreDirected by John Dahl I have to be honest and say that when this series was first proposed, I didn’t have much confidence that they’d […]
Book Review: The Clue of the Tapping Heels – Nancy Drew Dances Her Way Into Trouble
I aspire to one day be an eccentric woman who lives alone with a lot of cats. Really. That seems to me to be the idyllic way to live since cats don’t […]
Series Rewatch – Agent Carter: Hollywood Ending – Too Bad It’s Over
Written by Christopher Markus, Jack Kirby, and Stan LeeDirected by Jennifer Getzinger The final episode of the Agent Carter series actually leaves the story open for more adventures. It’s a shame they […]
Every “Junkie” Has People Who Love Them and Want Them to Be Clean
Yesterday I had two things happen that I wanted to write about besides my usual daily offering. As some of you may know from reading my posts, I lost my oldest daughter […]
What Kids Watch on YouTube and Why You Should Not Let Them Watch Alone
My almost 8-year-old granddaughter likes watching YouTube videos. My daughter has done a pretty good job monitoring what she watches. She loves creative things as she’s pretty creative herself. She loves things […]
Book Review: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt – Quirky Southern Slice of Life with a Murder Besides
I had this book on my “to read” list for quite some time. It’s one of those books I heard much about but had never chosen as my next one to read […]
Movie Review: The Sandlot – Baseball the Way It Should Be
Written by David Mickey Evans and Robert GunterDirected by David Mickey Evans Not every good movie about baseball has to be told at the Major League level. Baseball has long been a […]
Book Review: Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan – More Than The Birds and the Bees
Jodi Picoult is an author whose stories could have the secondary title: Ripped From Today’s Headlines. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. Sometimes she genuinely hits it out of the ballpark, such […]
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