It's always a moment of mixed emotions when the first of your siblings gets married. There's the utter incomprehension that some oth...

Found this in a binder from my English comps. Rereading Jane Austen's Novels This time around, they didn't seem so comic. Mama is fo...

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that no one shall speak of Fight Club. Enjoy the latest mashup, which skips the book and goes straig...

My grateful list for last week is much more mundane. First, I am grateful to my dear friends, who have obviously been reading the blog, and ...

What brilliance! A genteel alternative to football ... just like last year. An encore presentation of MASTERPIECE CLASSIC's Emmy-nomina...

Dear Santa, I know that I've already asked you for a Toaster , but I've changed my mind. I don't need a toaster. That is just to...

I know most people want to be Lizzie Bennet , but I'm not at all surprised by the results of this quiz. I identify with Anne on so many...

Not only does public television rock because it just does ... now it's getting support from The Police in supposedly their last concert...

As an older sister to two sports-playing younger brothers and a daughter to a sports-watching dad, I would always be the bane of their exist...

Thanks, in large part, to the dumbing-down of American television in recent years, made even worse by the ongoing writers strike, I've f...