And now, for something completely different...

My friend L recently loaned me Season 1 of Prime Suspect .  It's a BBC series about Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison, which start...

S and I have been doing lots of mountain biking lately.  I use the word "mountain" loosely, since we live in the Midwest.  Trail b...

E and I had an opera spectacular, enjoying two shows in one day a couple of Saturdays ago. We started with The Grapes of Wrath , which w...

I'm cheating a bit by returning to a prior goal this month.  However, it will be a bit more ambitious, as I am adding to it. Remember ...

I had some goals for June related to work-life balance.  Here's how I did: 1. Have a talk with my boss about it (not for the first tim...

My second opera of the season was Titus , one I had hardly heard of before this opera season.  S and I preceded the show with dinner at one ...

This year's Shakespeare Festival show was The Winter's Tale -- not one of his more popular plays.  I normally go see the show with ...

I finished up The Cellist of Sarajevo a couple of days ago.  I was five or six pages from the end when I put the book down on Saturday, b...

E recommended Captain Fantastic to me, because it stars Aragorn (aka Viggo Mortensen , but he will always be Aragorn to me). Except in t...