Tag: Writing

  • Day of Remembrance

    Day of Remembrance

    Family stories and history are an ephemeral thing; they’re often hard to pin down and are told fleetingly, spontaneously, after a game of cards around the dinner table or on a cousin’s front porch when goodbyes are forgotten and talk begins of what happened or may have happened and speculation about the details we’ll never…

  • 2017 Top Fives – Film & TV

    2017 Top Fives – Film & TV

    To say that this list of my top five movies and TV shows of 2017 was easy to put together wouldn’t be exactly the truth. I had to scrounge around a little because I am, admittedly, still burned out from film school (four years later) and the thought of actually paying to go to the…

  • Lady Bird

    Lady Bird

    Greta Gerwig’s directorial debut, Lady Bird, is the first film I’ve ever taken myself to see. I suppose my pitch to the few people whom I did ask to go with me wasn’t very convincing: “You know, Frances Ha?” or “I don’t really like Greta Gerwig, but I want to go see this so I…

  • I have a bad habit…

    I have a bad habit…

    …of seeing something and saying, “I could do that myself.” Then I do.