Okay, I know that I am very late to this party. Firefly was a one-season, 14-episode series on Fox back in 2002. Later, they made a movie called Serenity. I tried to watch the movie once, years ago, not knowing it should follow Firefly. It didn't make sense to me, and I gave up. But writers love Continue Reading
Writing a Novel One Word at a Time
A book gets written one word at a time. The trick is to string enough of them together on a regular basis, day in and day out. I made my word goal for the day before 2:00 and then got in a 40 minute walk on the treadmill. My goodness, I'm feeling ridiculously proud of myself. Perhaps because too Continue Reading
Survivor (Sofa) Fan
This Wednesday, it's the start of another season of Survivor. Season 26, and another Fans versus Favorites theme. And yes, I'll be watching. It was my youngest daughter who got me hooked on the show. She was a big fan and wanted to be a contestant. She tried out for Survivor many moons ago. So I Continue Reading
Humiliation as Entertainment
Last Wednesday evening, I watched American Idol while doing all my last minute packing. (Left the house at 5 AM the next morning, so no time to waste.) But I've continued to think about the Jermaine Jones situation that I blogged about last week, and I finally have to speak up, late though I Continue Reading
Idol 11: from 13 to 12
Results night … and it wasn't a two hour show. Thank goodness. Lauren Alaina stopped in to sing Georgia Peaches. Not crazy about the song, but she performed the life out of it and sure looked pretty. Mary J. Blige also performed tonight. Wow! Bottom three girls were: Elise Testone, Erika Van Pelt, Continue Reading
Idol 11: The 13 Perform
Tonight was Idol's 400th episode. Wow! Something a little different for the results show tomorrow: The lowest scoring boy and the lowest scoring girl will be announced and then the three judges will decide which of them goes home. Also interesting: It is guys versus girls tonight. The guys will sing Continue Reading
