Thursday, March 11th, 2010
There is a review of the film here. Here are a few snippets from the review:
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There is an abundance of great films about a child lost in an alien culture, emblematic of the universal stranger-in-a-strange-land syndrome, to the tune of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child.”
From “The Wizard of Oz” to “Live and Become,” [...]
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
I usually read at night, after the girls are in bed. But work has been a bit crazy, and I’ve found myself bringing work home and spending three to five hours working at night after the girls are in bed. I started Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven last week but do not [...]
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Saturday, January 9th, 2010
We’ve talked before about how much I enjoy the TV show Castle. For those who have missed it, it’s a writer who is friends with the mayor who gets permission to ride around with a (female) homicide detective so he can learn what she does and get ideas for his next series. In the [...]
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Monday, January 4th, 2010
I have a cousin who loved to read when we were young, but several years ago I discovered she had stopped reading. She was going through a tough time in her life, and I remembered when reading books was an escape mechanism for both of us. So for Christmas that year I bought her [...]
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Saturday, November 28th, 2009
We put our Christmas decorations up the weekend after Thanksgiving. And that’s, like, now. Which means we are well on the way to our house looking like Christmas.
TwinkleToes has been able to help out a lot more this year, and let’s just say our family tree is really bottom heavy with ornaments. Not that I’m [...]
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Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
I was pretty worried about how this show was going to portray adoption. I was pleasantly surprised that they hired hosts who were adopted and who were sensitive to what was going on.
Like it or not, we get to be “adoption educators” to our friends and families, so they’ll understand the things our kids feel [...]
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