I’ve used a small cloth purse on a cord in which I can carry the vitals, and I wear it inside my clothes.

Hoffman’s book is so much deeper than the movie, as is its prequel. The film version of Practical Magic wasn’t awful as a movie, it was more slapstick and just had very little to do with the book. “The Rules of Magic” is about two other sisters - the aunts who raised the Practical Magic protagonists - and their…

The elderly French couple I visited recently not only didn’t put the decanted red wine into the fridge, they didn’t cover it. Unless they took it out ahead of time when I wasn’t looking.

Okay, I’m playing with fire here... I sent away to Australia for a DVD of a 1956 movie because the protagonist has my name. The movie: “Girls in Prison”. It’s not too bad, actually, not lurid at all, and has some pretty good actors including Richard Denning, Jane Darwell.

I saw a couple of X-rated films that year which would be only an R now, and some M films that should have been R. “M” confused people, because before that there were basically 2 ratings: “For mature audiences” and everything else (that wasn’t actual porn). The board tried “GP”, also confusing, and finally the more…

It always got me that when she hated a movie she went on and on about it instead of just dismissing it.

When I saw it several years later, after I had been studying Russian, I noted that when the Russian man delicately inquires about the (supposed) plague on the Moon (a story the US is using to keep everyone else away from the monolith), Heywood delicately says he can’t talk about it, and after he leaves the group of Rus…

I turned on the TCM channel one day and realized that 2001's intermission was playing. there can’t be many TV stations that would show a movie’s intermission.

Among the things I can thank him for is the memory of walking down that hall while tripping, feeling like Alice in Wonderland in the “long, low hall lit by lamps”.

No, and no.

Library, young person, library!

Perhaps best read in the summer when you are unemployed. (Personal experience.)

I had only ever read the original plus one of the book of short stories, in which Anne makes an occasional appearance, so when I was preparing to visit PEI for the first time I read the entire series in chronological order, i.e. of Anne’s life. They do get to have a sameness, and I wasn’t interested in the hijinks of…

All these books are free, public domain or not, via your local public library!

Back in the day I always got a kick out seeing Don Rickles, Jack Carter, or Carol Burnett doing serious roles, generally on television.

I thought Beloit had a wonderful progressive college?

I’ve flown through the Toronto airport on two occasions. A 2-hour layover seems like it would be adequate, but it’s a crowded and confusing place with many staff who are not native speakers of English or French. On my first trip two hours was barely enough time to make it through, and both coming and going we had to…

To be honest, I’m still looking forward to “the future” when I can do whatever it was I thought I was going to do. It’s easy to hung up on fulfilling your family responsibilities, if you have them.

Hey, literally everybody, don’t have sex with lots of people just because you can.

50 means “If not now, when?” So does 60. Also 70. Definitely 80.