Category Archives: Uncategorized
Miss Pettrigrew Lives for a Day
“Not everything comes along just when we want it. There are times when decisions just have to be made, or you certainly will miss out.” ~ Guinevere Pettigrew in Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day “I am not an expert on love, I am an expert on the lack of love, Delysia, and that isContinue reading “Miss Pettrigrew Lives for a Day”
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us, and make us kinder. You always have the choice.” ~ Dalai Lama This spring is the fifth anniversary of beginning this blog. During the winter, I felt like my postsContinue reading “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”
Ben-Hur
“You can break a man’s skull, you can arrest him, you can throw him into the dungeon. but how do you control what’s up here? (taps his head) How do you fight an idea?” ~ Sextus in Ben-Hur It’s nearly Passover and Easter. When I was growing up, every year at this time the networksContinue reading “Ben-Hur”
Stephen King’s The Stand
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, butContinue reading “Stephen King’s The Stand”