My First Trip to Maui
Was it February or March, and how many years ago? I don’t remember nor does it really matter. The truth is, through some friends, a great opportunity arose to go to Maui for a late winter vacation. The condo a…
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"And that’s all I’m going to say about that."
Was it February or March, and how many years ago? I don’t remember nor does it really matter. The truth is, through some friends, a great opportunity arose to go to Maui for a late winter vacation. The condo a…
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Call me a remake skeptic. Too often I’ve seen a beautifully told story from a French, Spanish, German, Italian, Japanese, etc. director turned into a surface, shallow, ghost of the original story, sometimes bearing no more in common than the…
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Once upon a time well it was around 1996 in a job not so far away a co-worker of mine, Amy, said she had a CD she thought I’d like. We shared a lot of the same tastes in music….
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You are in the kitchen, the TV gets turned to a movie in progress, you can’t see it, but you can hear the music and within a few notes or measures you recognize the movie or movie series or at…
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I keep seeing vehicle model names that make me think “I sure wouldn’t want to drive around in THAT!” I’m not even talking about the merits, or lack of, of these as actual vehicles; I simply find the names so…
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I enjoyed Winter’s Tale. Mark Helprin is a writer I have a hard time finding the right adjectives for. His writing is beautifully captivating, magical yet true. I was at once excited to see this movie, yet almost expecting that…
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Did you toss a stick and follow where it pointed? Wander in the stick-determined direction until your internal child-clock said it was time for another toss? Or wander until the way was barred by insurmountable fence or other obstacle? “Other…
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March. The end of February…a dark flat gray month, long in spite of its truncated number of days. March. “My” month…our wedding anniversary is in March, my birthday is in March, my SAD begins to lift in March. March. Named…
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Have you ever noticed how in some movies “sense of place” is so powerful, so much a part of the story, essential to it that this place looms as large in your memory as a favorite scene, actor, bit of…
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In “Life Without a Soundtrack” I spoke about how integral music is to me. Today I share one of the many songs that my internal DJ plays with some frequency, “Uncle John’s Band”, Grateful Dead, music and lyrics by Jerry…
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