May’s Mutterings: Rants and Ramblings
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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…
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Book review: The Confessions of Catherine de Medici by C.W. Gortner
The Confessions of Catherine de Medici by C.W. Gortner My rating: 4 of 5 stars I had a difficult time getting into the author’s previous book, The Last Queen, so I wasn’t sure what I would think about this book. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that I really liked it. It may be because…
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Book review: Killing Floor by Lee Child
Killing Floor by Lee Child My rating: 4 of 5 stars Hard boiled thrillers are a bit hit-and-miss with me. I like some of them but many are off-putting due to their unlikeable main character. I was surprised I liked this book as much as I do. There’s violence, of course, (you can’t have a…
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Movie Review: The Fifth Estate
The Fifth Estate” has done poorly in movie theaters, but it stars Benedict Cumberbatch, so I indulged our 14 year old daughter in her obsession of all things Benedict and took her to see it last night. (Jim and our 12 year old went to see “”Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2”.) I was…
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