Some Oscar Predictions

I’ve seen most of the Best Picture nominees this year (no Nightmare Alley, Drive My Car or West Side Story) … More

6 Thoughts on Jerry Maguire, 26 Years Later

Virginia and I continued on a torrid pace of movie-watching, this time watching Jerry Maguire with friends on New Year’s … More

We continued our movie-watching last night and caught Don’t Look Up, directed by Adam McKay. It is ostensibly about what … More

Virginia and I kicked off our quarantine (a nephew we saw over the Christmas weekend tested positive Sunday for covid, … More

Our local public radio station, WXPN, is a treasure, and their reader poll to determine the greatest albums of all … More

Listened to George Saunders’ first collection of short stories, Civilwarland in Bad Decline, this summer and all the things I … More

Can a couple’s marriage survive a life-changing loss when one of them is responsible for the tragedy? That’s the question … More

There’s a lot going on in the world and it has me wanting to get back to writing for other … More

I missed a day for the first time in two weeks on this, so I’m going to accept that I’ve … More

To be honest, I don’t know if this one gets you through, or if it pulls you down. It’s the … More

Margo Price has the kind of voice and taste that gets you crowned as country music’s next big thing, so … More

John Prine’s passing due to COVID-19 is one of the many tragedies of the past year, but Prine had the … More