Gripe About Myspace

I recently tried to cancel my Myspace account, because it is causing “personal drama”. It’s an incredibly difficult process these days. You have to confirm twice that you want to cancel, and write why. Then, you have to receive an e-mail and click on a link in that to confirm once more that [...]

Whale Rider Movie Review

Whale Rider

Whale Rider is a lovely little movie about a rural Maori town in New Zealand and their search for a leader. It’s about the struggle for a little girl to be accepted, about the struggle between tradition and modern ideas, fulfilling your dreams, and about love within a family and within a community. It [...]

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

This is a neat little book that I read almost in one day. I found a lot of myself in it. Some of you may think that this statement is odd. After all, it’s about a British girl growing up in a small town under a severely religious, perhaps deranged family, to find out [...]