A feature in Sunday’s newspaper, the Summer Arts Guide, proclaims “All the movies you’ll watch this summer.” It lists a whole bunch of the new films being released in the next couple of months, and when they hit the big (or little) screens. Most of them we won’t see because, well, honestly, we’re not interested.
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Mother’s Day – Honoring, Loss, and Memories
This is a holiday for honoring mothers around the world. It will be a day of celebration, a day filled with happy memories for those of us whose mothers have passed on but filled, for some, a day with just a hint of loneliness. Our daughter is in Atlanta, and as she’s coming home in couple of weeks for her godson’s graduation from high school, so making the trip now didn’t make sense. But we’ll be communicating by phone throughout the day. Some families aren’t quite that lucky. It is also a painful one in our family. My wife’s sister passed in January, so this is our nephew’s first without . . . . It will be a day of coping. Celebrating with his wife and children but also a feeling a mix of emotions.
Continue reading “Mother’s Day – Honoring, Loss, and Memories”Becoming Executive Producer
My apologies for the production delays you’ve experienced. I’ve been promoted from Head Writer of “I’m thinking . . . .No” to Executive Producer, and moving into the corner office. When these blogs had just a handful of readers, I could maintain a more modest title, but now that I’m pulling in, well, tens of tens of readers, and presumably the influence that I can inflict generate has been expanding rapidly, so it’s time to move up on the title hierarchy.
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