Tag: TV/Movies

  • Travel, pregnancy, holidays. Lately I feel like life is a never-ending series of obstacles — mostly good ones, but still — that are keeping me from catching my breath. Every day my to-do list grows… then shrinks… then grows even more. How? Help! I love how being an adult is just saying "But after this…

  • Well that’s a mouthful. And I even truncated two of the titles! This past December through February, besieged by the chaos of holidays and recurring illness, I indulged in a lot of screen time. I wouldn’t say it was the best use of so many hours… but I always try to make my “creative consumption”…

  • Seen on screen

    On Friday, I indulged in two movies, one on the big screen, and one on my iPad mini. Both filled my heart with joy, and made me cry several times, because of the stories themselves, and also because of what these stories mean. I haven’t stopped thinking about them all weekend, and I can’t wait…

  • “Recently” might be too generous of a term, in the case of Hidden Figures, which I watched several months ago. But I really enjoyed this movie and have been intending to post about it ever since. Although I no longer watch Empire, I will always be drawn to Taraji P. Henson — and of course…

  • Opening credits Several months ago, I wrote a column for my dad’s newspapers about life as a new mother. Now I’m working on another one, about the part that technology played in our first year of parenting. Recently I read my friend Jasmine Warga’s second book, HERE WE ARE NOW. On the surface, it’s about…