It is hot here today, but I am not complaining. Okay, maybe a little, but the air conditioning is working, and it is cool (literally and figuratively). Still, I can tell Fall is coming, and I am looking forward to the change of seasons! I love the colors of autumn, the scents, the crispness in the air, the foods…
I have a mental game I like to play: making movies in my head. Sometimes I like to play the game by starting with an older classic movie or story. Sometimes I combine the movie and the story. I did that recently with The Quiet Man, mixing the short story and the movie. Here is a quick summary of what I devised, but first, a bit of background. Background John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara starred in the 1952 movie, which…
The best advice any teacher ever gave me outside of recommending I accept Bryn Mawr College’s very generous scholarship offer was something another teacher told me when I was about 10 years old. She told me to read–read anything I could get my hands on and just keep reading. And, here I am, all this (ahem) decades later, and I still read just about anything I can get my hands on…thank goodness for public libraries. And, speaking of which, here’s…