Wow. What a great year for movies. For the past couple of weeks, I've been squeezing in many of the Fall Oscar-run releases, and I've been deliberating over my list of the year with the nagging feeling that I'm forgetting...
I read fifty-six books in 2013, a good number for me and
really, sort of hard to believe because it certainly doesn’t feel like I
average a book a week. For sure, lots of these were read in batches, during a
vacation or at times...
The last three times I went out running, my iPod has served
up “Sweet Home Alabama” as part of its shuffle. There’s no rhyme or reason to
this, only sheer mathematics, which is certainly no specialty of mine. So...
The Flat is a documentary from 2012. The filmmaker, Arnon
Goldfinger, along with the rest of his family, enters his grandparents’ flat in
Tel Aviv with the aim of clearing it out after his grandmother’s death at the
age of...
"As soon as we express something, we devalue it strangely. We believe ourselves to have dived down into the depths of the abyss, and when we once again reach the surface, the drops of water on our pale fingertips no longer resemble the ocean from which they came...Nevertheless, the treasure shimmers in the darkness unchanged." ---Franz Kafka
