One-Liner Wednesday — I closed my laptop and opted out.

This past Sunday, I watched the Interstellar (2014) Blu-ray that I'd borrowed from my son. He'd been saying how phenomenal it was and how it would get me way down deep, so I couldn't resist. (He isn't one to praise movies easily.) Turns out he was right. The viewer in me (simply in it for a… Continue reading One-Liner Wednesday — I closed my laptop and opted out.

The first time I realized “Jemima” was more than a derogatory black name…

...was when, as a young teen in the mid-1970s, I watched the movie musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968). I was already a daydreamer, a romantic, and a fantasy-lover with an imagination that stretched from here to the Horsehead Nebula, so the movie made me laugh and I enjoyed it ridiculously. But hovering in the back… Continue reading The first time I realized “Jemima” was more than a derogatory black name…