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A Tale of Three Maxims

ByRachel January 7, 2015 2 Comments
Ever fallen so in love with a book that you could literally see every moment? You smell the smell of each location, feel the temperature of the air, hear the specific pitch of every voice saying every line? People like us should not watch book-to-movies. I recently finished reading Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier to my husband J. I’d read it three times already. I love the story and have vivid...

Team Edward Team Jacob

ByRachel January 12, 2010 4 Comments
So unless you live under a rock, you know the terms "Team Edward" and "Team Jacob." They're shorthand to differentiate between the two Twilight camps. Those in the "Team Edward" camp rooted for Bella and Edward. Those in "Team Jacob" decided that Bella's breakup with Edward was actually a positive thing, as it brought her to Jacob. Why am I, a non-Twilight fan, talking about this? It's because...

Tuesdays With Tuesday–Week 3

ByRachel December 4, 2009 1 Comment
Welcome to Tuesdays with Tuesday. For last week's installment, go here. Tuesday So, my post is a couple of days late. Things happened this week--things I didn't really want to talk about right away. But now events are escalating, and I have to write it all down to try and make sense of it. On Monday, a detective visited our office. Yes, you heard right. An honest-to-goodness chain-smoking modern...

Thwarted Desires

ByRachel November 28, 2009 3 Comments
When director Steven Spielberg first watched the recent movie hit "Paranormal Activity" (at that time just a low-budget indie film), he found it successfully scary and wrought with frightening tension. He had only one complaint; change the ending. Though the film succeeded in scripting, acting, tension and creativity, the ending alone could have been enough to sink it. Why? Because the original...

Tuesdays with Tuesday–Week 2

ByRachel November 24, 2009 2 Comments
Welcome to the second installment of "Tuesdays with Tuesday," where our literary friend Tuesday Jones expounds upon the virtues and disillusionment of post-grad life. For last week's installment, go here. Tuesday So after last week's laundry list of every grotesquely dull thing that happened to me, I had serious doubts about continuing this series of posts. But, in an odd twist of events,...