Movie Review – All About SteveI’m quite surprised to read all the awful reviews about this movie. I thought it was great. Sandra Bullock, Bradley Cooper, a romance, or rather romantic comedy. I expected the standard formula: girl meets boy, girl falls madly in love, boy rejects girl, girl follows boy across the country (ok, [...]

All I Want for Christmas is a Real Good Tan (And You) In December of 2003, I was at a crossroads, literally and figuratively. I had been married almost four years. We had been through some good times and some hard things, but we were going through about the hardest thing we’d been through so [...]

Delayed ReactionLadies, how many of you out there have had this happen to you? You’re in a new relationship, and maybe you had a bad one before, or maybe you’re shy, or for other reasons you just want to take it slow. Then your guy takes you on a romantic stroll, and he’s holding your [...]

How important is age in a relationship?Age is mostly important when you’re quite young or quite old.  Obviously, if someone is under the legal age of consent, there is a problem.  And of course problems come up when an older man (or woman) dates or marries a partner who is the same age as their [...]

What is the difference between lust and love?A good friend once gave me this great piece of advice: Everyone gets old, loses their appearance, appeal, and their sexual ability.  Eventually, you will lose the tingly, turned on, lovey-dovey feeling you are feeling now.  You have to ask yourself, after this person loses that, would you [...]

The Red Tent by Anita DiamantI was drawn first to this book by its beautiful cover illustration.   It’s in the style of  a classical oil painting, and shows a woman in a Biblical landscape who is obviously suffering from a great tragedy.  I looked at the description, and found that it was about Dinah, a [...]

Book Review: The Girls by Lori LansensI found this book incredibly interesting and I read it constantly until the end. What was so interesting? The author is from Canada, the characters were well developed, and it is a story about conjoined twins (yes, siamese twins, but the proper term is conjoined twins). Of course, since [...]

A Million Little Pieces by James FreyI found this book at the free store and almost didn’t take it. It looked kind of cool, a hand with candy sprinkles all over it. But the description, about a man with an addiction who goes through rehab didn’t sound that exciting. I’ve read a few of those, [...]

Midwives by Chris BohjalianI’m always interested when I see an “Oprah’s Book Club” seal on a novel, and I’ve never yet been disappointed. They are always haunting, thought-provoking, realistic stories. Once again, I was not disappointed. The story is from the point of view of the 14 year old daughter (Connie) of a Vermont midwife [...]

Movie Review: WALL-EI finally got the chance to watch this, and I was very impressed. This has to be the cutest robot movie I’ve ever seen, and it is one of the best movies for kids that I’ve seen in a long time.  Rated G – now how often do you see that anymore?  Truly [...]