Quoth Og Mandino

"Will my concern for this day not seem foolish ten years hence?"

My Authorial Debut

The Thrilling Sequel

How to Train Your Dragon

Daughter and I had a rather slow, low-energy day today. We finally got to see “How to Train Your Dragon.” Liked it well enough, but I had issues.

1) The movie’s theme was that dragons are people too, and that all humans have to do to live in harmony with these sweet, kitten-like critters, [...]

"The Princess and the Frog" Reconsidered

So, wait. I was lying in bed thinking about this movie, and some things about “The Princess and the Frog” are starting to bug me.

First of all, I was reading a bunch of reviews on Rotten Tomatoes to get an idea of the prevailing critical response. Many of them focus on what a [...]

"The Princess and the Frog"

So yes, daughter and I braved holiday mall crowds and theoretically icy conditions to see “The Princess and the Frog” on opening day. Why? Because we wanted to see a movie together and she wouldn’t bend in my direction (“The Fantastic Mr. Fox”) and I wouldn’t bend in her direction (“Planet 51″) so we [...]