The Original Feel Good Movies

My mother raised me on old movies. Grey movies, as my sister calls them, enchanted me from a young age. Period pieces, glamorous films of the 1930’s and 40’s, Lawrence Olivier, Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, you name it.
This evening I turned on one such film, Mr. Deeds goes to Town, starring Gary Cooper [...]

Where I Live

Some high school friends and I bonded the other day when we realized we all have the same reaction to cower and hide when we saw someone we recognized in town. Even if we liked the person growing up, those questions all pointing towards “What are you doing with your life?” will inevitably emerge [...]

Triathlon Training

On June 28th Sleepy Hollow will have its first sprint triathlon, a trek of a half mile swim, a ten mile bike and a three mile run. It is a small triathlon, but just the right size for me. What with being unemployed and having plenty of time, a desire to be super [...]

1-888-WeJoust

I had never been to Medieval Times. I told Josh I had been to the Renaissance Faire a couple times, to which he responded, “Oh, this is so much more.” If you say so…
For those of you unfamiliar with Medieval Times, it is basically a Renaissance-themed dinner theater. There are chicken dinners, [...]

Absolutely UPlifted!

Pixar never fails to amaze me. You really gotta hand it to them: they have big shoes to fill—their own, and they keep getting bigger all the time.

I saw Up, Pixar’s latest creation, the night it came out. I couldn’t wait an additional second, although now I wish I had because my [...]

Apologies

Ok, so I still don’t exactly know who of you out there actually reads this thing, but I wanted apologize to all (approximating) three of you for my despicable laziness that has ensued for the past month or so.  Now that I am back with my own computer and plenty of time as I am [...]