Hello blog friends! I’m back from the deep, dark writing cave. Yesterday morning I finished my first draft of Aftershock (HQN, 2013). Yay! I’m going to give it a short rest before I do another read-through, polish, line edit etc. It’s due in about two weeks. Although I always feel pressure to submit quality work, [...]

Okay, I can’t think of any “stranded on an island” romance novels, but several movies come to mind. We’ve all seen The Blue Lagoon, right? A more thought-provoking film, perhaps, is Lina Wertmuller’s Swept Away. You might remember a bad Madonna remake of this movie. I never saw that and don’t plan to! But the [...]

When I consider the amount of time I spend with my husband between work and meals and caring for the kids, it seems like very little. Movie night is special to us for this reason. We are together, sharing company, often without the children, always sitting close. We like to discuss the film afterwards, praising [...]

9/11 made a huge impact on my life. Everyone’s life, right? I remember my husband waking me up that morning, telling me a plane hit the World Trade Center. He went to work but I stayed home because my college classes were cancelled. I watched the news all day long, unable to turn away, unable [...]

I’ve seen a few post-apocalyptic movies lately. The Road with Viggo Mortensen scared the living hell out of me. I don’t mean I was afraid of the dark for a few days, either. I mean I became convinced that HUMANITY WAS DOOMED. It was unsettling. I highly recommend. Over the weekend my husband rented The [...]

Apocalypto is a beautiful, interesting, entertaining movie. It’s also disgustingly brutal. If you can stomach the gore, along with Mel Gibson’s heavy-handed symbolism and mildly offensive religious views, the film is well worth watching. Jaguar Paw is a young hunter poised to become leader of his tribe. He has a pretty wife, a healthy son, [...]