Monthly Archives: August 2025

July 2025 Snapshots

Dark times. Trying to enjoy things! I’m out of practice! Kitten sitting for my brother and Melody. The kittens are sisters. They are bonded and sleep together, bathing each other. When they curl up together, you can’t tell where one … Continue reading

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Review: She Rides Shotgun (2025)

I reviewed the film adaptation of Jordan Harper’s award-winning debut novel for Rogerebert.com.

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“He who has never felt, momentarily, what madness is has but a mouthful of brains.” — Herman Melville

“Old nineteenth-century New England must have been fearful–in what other country would Thoreau, Melville, Whitman and Dickinson have been so overlooked?” — Robert Lowell, letter to Elizabeth Bishop, December 12, 1958 Herman Melville was born on this day in 1819. … Continue reading

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