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Nov.23.2012 Sister and Sistah Jane Austen Adaptation Sense and Sensibility “Sister and Sistah” ACT I “Daddy,” Jamal called out as he rushed into the hospital room at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center’s intensive care unit in Los Angeles, California. “Jamal, Jamal, Mr. Davis babbled as he...	Sep.02.2012 Promise Broken September 2 PROMISE BROKEN If promise shatters without anyone touching it, if it pops like a floating soap bubble that lost its cohesion, what do I do? Name names? I can’t even take fingerprints. Sometimes dreams just end. No fault or blame is...
Jun.23.2012 Prometheus, the Movie - It Promises and Almost Delivers This is the sort of adventure movie that I'm usually drooling over, the missus simply tolerating and along for the ride. This time, as the popcorn and nachos disappeared, she leaned over and whispered, "I really like this!" It's a Ridley Scott flick, and by the time of the missus...	Apr.07.2011 I WANT IN!! What is it about humans and wanting to be absolutely everywhere, even places we don’t belong. It’s as if we have an inbuilt genetic need to seek out the prohibited, the dangerous, the unwelcoming, or even the ‘just none of your darn business’ areas, and of course we want in. The funny thing is,...
Dec.27.2010 Happiness is Reading Alice Munro Alice Munro is one of the few authors I have read who so artfully relates the throes of the human condition through her characters’ active and reactive thoughts revolving around people with whom they are intimate and others whom they’ve simply met on their path through life. Having just devoured...	Aug.26.2010 The Hugeness of Literature “The Diary Of A Madman,” from The Death Of Ivan Ilyich, by Leo Tolstoy This is an intriguing story – unfinished, by all accounts, and begging in Tolstoy’s way for lengthy elaboration. Still there’s enough her to understand what the writer intended for the story. Tolstoy begins the...
Jun.30.2010 P.T. Deutermann - suspense novels - suspense novelist Deutermann writes suspenseful mysteries. The interesting thing about writers who have had military experience: Military experience tends to be among the more intense aspects of life. Those who have lived intensely, whether military or not, see the human condition in sharp relief and, if they...	Mar.11.2010 GET YOUR EARTH ON!!! Earth is the heart of our universe, pulsing with love and life at all times. We totally depend on our planet to give lavishly and unconditionally of itself for our nourishment and support. Over the years, we have fallen out of balance with our earth, causing disorder, affliction, and shortage in...