Pertinent to my Interests

Documentary reviews, body neutrality, parenting, Jupiter, piano, cats, European history, ghosts, rodents, the collapse of civilization, and if this goes on long enough I'll probably end up cataloguing my entire smushed penny collection.

Month: September 2023

  • Documentary Review/ Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror

    This is not a documentary about the attack on the twin towers on September 11, 2001. You would be forgiven for thinking it might be. It opens with American 11 taking off from Boston on the morning of September 11, 2001. We all know where this is headed. I’ve watched a lot of documentaries about…

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  • Princess Diana and the Old Days

    I was watching a documentary about Princess Diana when I looked at the date and realized that it had been exactly twenty-six years since her funeral. Princess Diana really defines the 90s for me in many ways. Her last, most exciting years and her death occurred right in the middle of my family’s People magazine…

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  • Safe

    This morning my children walked to school together alone, and this afternoon they will walk home together without me. They are eight and ten and I suppose they are ready, but I am not. I did not expect to be a helicopter parent. I am not particularly precious about children in general, and I don’t…

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