My Backstory series offers stories about my upbringing and background. You can find the whole series under the category “Biography,” if you’re interested. When I was a teenager, I watched Born on the Fourth of July when it finally showed on TV. I doubt my parents would have let me watch it […]
What is a novelette? you ask. It’s what, as an English teacher, I would’ve called a short story just a little bit too long to assign for one night’s homework. (That makes novellas, to me, about a week’s worth of high school homework.) I found more to like among the […]
My Backstory series offers stories about my upbringing and background. You can find the whole series under the category “Biography,” if you’re interested. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Memorial Day was never complicated when I was a kid. We lived on top of a mountain in Appalachia in the middle of the woods. Flagpoles weren’t part […]
Zero Dark Thirty has garnered nearly everyone’s attention this winter. Kathryn Bigelow directed the film, her second outstanding film that takes a look at war (or situations related to war). Her first, The Hurt Locker, ranks on my list of best films ever. The Oscar committee stunned everyone by giving her […]
There are some bandwagons worth jumping on, and Suzanne Collins’s YA series The Hunger Games proved worthy of the hype. Currently Reading The Hunger Games Trilogy Boxed Set By Suzanne Collins see related To catch up on the story (if you’ve missed it) Together the 3 books tell the life of Katness […]
