My family and I saw A Christmas Story  on its opening day in 1983, and I saw it again a few weeks later with my Cub Scout pack.  Every holid...

I LOVED IT!! Okay, it's the new movie adaptation that came out just before Thanksgiving.  I still haven't seen the original musical ...

Every year at Christmas I used to leave this site for a few days.  Just sort of to take in the holiday and enjoy it with friends and family....

And, ummm... little on the fence about this.  I think David Corenswet is definitely tapping into the Superman mystique.  When I see him as S...

I have a lot of fond recollections stemming from  A Christmas Story , that 1983 film about nine-year-old Ralphie Parker (delightfully played...

I've carried something for a very long time now.  Rarely have I shared it with anyone.  It's bad enough that I have manic depression...

Still doing editing and revisions.  But I'm comfortable enough with the first several chapters that I'm including them in some of th...

"HEY!  UNTO YOU A CHILD IS BORN!!!" I needed to see this movie right now.  The Best Christmas Pageant Ever  is a story near and de...

It's quite difficult to believe that more than fifteen years have passed since Marvin "Popcorn" Sutton  left us.  He was a man...

I found some time ago that I seem to resonate more with people for whom politics is not  the most important thing in the world.  That it isn...

Longtime readers of this blog know well my fondness for deep-fried turkey.  It's an art that I've been doing since Thanksgiving 2002...

In the past couple of years some beloved characters have begun entering public domain.  And that's led to them being abused by people wi...

Because of a number of factors I wasn't able to have Thanksgiving yesterday with dear friends as is the usual custom.  But they resolved...

Why didn't somebody tell me about this??  It was released three weeks ago!! Oh alright, I guess I've just been so busy with things t...

I need to start referring to it more as my "manuscript."  It's not a full-blown book until it's got a few hundred pages ni...

It was about this time, ten years ago today, that I held your hand.  That rough calloused hand that could never be still enough to heal.  Yo...