Month: December 2013
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Movie review: Saving Mr. Banks
We were predisposed to like this film, as we are huge fans of all things Disney and enthusiastic fans of the movie “Mary Poppins.” But this film surpassed our expectations. The basic plot is the story of how Walt Disney convinced P.L. Travers, the author of the Mary Poppins series of books to let him…
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Merry Christmas!!
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Movie review: Frozen
We all went to watch “Frozen” last night. “Frozen” is the newest Disney animated movie and is roughly based on “The Snow Queen,” one of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales. This is definitely one of Disney’s better animated movies (I’m excluding the Pixar movies from this comparison, as that wouldn’t be fair.) The story is…
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Review: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
This Stephen Sondheim musical is currently playing at the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, DC. We took the entire family to see it on Friday night, and it was enthusiastically endorsed by everyone (even the 12 year old boy who was definitely not enthusiastic about going). The humor is occasionally off-color, but most of the humor…
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Hallelujah Christmas by Cloverton
A beautiful adaptation for Christmas of “Hallelujah” http://faithtap.com/2153/a-christmas-hallelujah/
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Movie Review: Thor: The Dark World
We took the family to see “Thor: The Dark World” over Thanksgiving weekend. It got a thumbs up from everyone. The plot was pretty clever for an action-adventure film, a genre not known for its creative plotting. The acting was also surprisingly good. I find Chris Hemsworth as Thor a bit wooden, but Jim pointed…
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Thanksgiving
We sat 25 people down for Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday. The extroverted half of the family was giddy with excitement. The introverted half of the family was delighted at the crowd and equally delighted when the evening ended. Here’s the menu of what was served: Thai Pumpkin Soup Fried Turkey Smoked Turkey Roasted Turkey Ham…
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Best Buddies Miami 2013
We flew down to Miami last weekend to attend the Best Buddies Miami gala. Best Buddies is an organization that helps people with intellectual and developmental disabilities with friendships, employment, and leadership development. We’ve been involved with the organization for 20 years, and Jim is on the board. The Miami event is especially entertaining because…