One thing in the film industry that has become predictable is superhero films. Don’t get me wrong, I like many of them and love some of them. There is just a chance that comic-book-film fatigue could set in, the possibility that too much of a good thing can be a bad thing.

As I write, a late season blizzard is set to hit the middle states of our nation. Flooding has already wiped out farms and communities a bit south of the states about to be hit. Blizzards, flooding rains and damaging winds have swept through the country several times in the last few weeks. T…

“Black is the Body: Stories From My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, and Mine” 

During his short stay in Nationalist-held territory in China during World War II, Eric Sevareid observed that Chiang Kai-shek, was nothing more than a despot, ruling over a feudal system where the peasants were starving, members of his own Nationalist Army were starving, Army officers and gr…

Do you like music? I don’t mean, do you like knowing what is popular, or do you like music that is associated with your favorite television show, or do you like certain bands because you think their look would be a good look for you.