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Scream at the Devil: Help Make a Movie!

I love movies; I don’t see enough of them lately. My undergraduate degree was in movies, and if you check out the movie Future Kill, you’ll actually see me. I was a production assistant, but I was an extra in one scene.  Here I am, in all my street-bum glory. So my love of cinema […]

Indiana Jones and the First Rule of Writing Fiction

As in life, first impressions are everything in writing fiction, and writers can learn a lot from the classic, stellar film, Raiders of the Lost Ark. That movie is, frankly, a wellspring of examples of great story-telling. Right now, I’m focusing on only one. First impressions Who is Indiana Jones? Well, he’s the hero of […]

The Hunger Games…not so satiating

Over the last couple of days, I’ve finally experienced two things that I’d been anticipating. One, my husband’s birthday dinner at the Brazilian style restaurant, Fogo de Chao. We ate at a similar restaurant in China when we adopted Isabella (where they have a huge salad bar and bring a never-ending stream of meats to […]

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