Apparently, despite Ben Affleck’s original protestations a year or so back, he has an absolutely garish tattoo that takes up the whole of his back and then some. Fast forward to this past week when Ben Affleck was photographed on a beach looking pensive and possibly horribly […]
Ok. Let me get one thing out there. Supposedly this piece here will be about the latest Spielberg movie called Ready Player One. However, I have to first declare outright my love of Easter. Ever since I was a little girl, I enjoyed it immensely. Now that […]
Everything these days seems to be either about personalization or psychometric profiling. I suppose that by now you have heard about the little problem that Facebook has been having the past few weeks. Apparently, according to the news media companies, voter-profiling company Cambridge Analytica harvested private data […]
Sometimes we picture the past in a way that it didn’t exist. We romanticize some past points in ways that make us nostalgic for things that never existed or happened. There is even a book by Stephanie Coontz called “The Way We Never Were” that dissects decades of our […]
There are many things to rant about these days. Toys R Us is closing due to a perfect storm representative of the changing times. I loved that store. Although, I will admit I didn’t shop there all that often as of late. That’s part of the problem, […]
There are many times when we try to be as diplomatic as possible. Well, I do. Or at least that has been my longstanding way of being. As a matter of fact, a former colleague a while ago told me that I needed to stop being so diplomatic. […]
Before I went to watch the movie A Wrinkle in Time, I had heard it was a grand movie about resilience and girl power. When I heard such commentary I just shrugged my shoulders. I think many people thought that I would love this movie by Ava DuVernay […]
“I have no goals at the moment.” Anyone who knows me well, or just a tad bit honestly, would never believe that such a sentence would be uttered by me. I am a Type A, highly-driven person who similar to what Madonna told Dick Clark many years […]
Most superheros have an origin story. Although, it is often depicted in the first ten minutes of a film and then we have the here and now. I must say that I am taken back a bit by how the Joker doesn’t have a truly fleshed […]
It is Valentine’s Day! I have no pretty poetry to share. I have no ode. But I wish you all well. What I do have are a few words on sports. My love of sports. So there you go. When people look at me they often incorrectly assume […]