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Aunt Lydia (from Hulu's Handmaid's Tale), haunts my garden During the pandemic I've been gardening--a lot. There's real...

1. I watch too much TV.  In my defense, so much TV is so good now--or maybe it's so easy to watch. One show runs into the next on N...

I could not stop watching the trainwreck that was Dirty Dancing 2017 (though I only watched it in fits and starts while washing the dish...

In case you haven't noticed, I've mostly quit blogging. And I'm only blogging right now because I handed out my business card at...

If only there was a Goodreads for watching TV. If so, I would be a top viewer. I watched a lot of television in the 11 months I went t...

"I don't want to be somebody's sweetheart—I want to be somebody!" Denise declares to Sam in the fourth episode of "Th...

A couple of years ago, I wrote about how I got through the darker months of winter by listening to melancholy music . This year, I've...

I don't know why I kept watching Downton Abbey this season. The plot was such a disappointment—recurring themes that went nowhere and...

In case you missed it, Maurice Sendak did a hilarious, curmudgeonly interview with Stephen Colbert this week. I'll embed it here because...

I actually got excited when I first read about the new ABC show, "Once Upon a Time." Critics lauded it as a return to the family ...

I gave my hubby the complete PBS "Jeeves and Wooster" series on DVD for our anniversary earlier this month. We just watched the e...

The Onion's AV Club is posting a two-part series on locations in Baltimore used in The Wire . Given my reluctance to visit Baltimore (...

My spouse was watching a movie a few weeks ago (on the small TV in the kitchen that we use when washing the dishes), in which a group of te...

As I confessed in an earlier post , I am slightly terrified of Baltimore, based on its fictional portrayal in David Simon's TV shows. Y...

 Like everyone else my age, I read The Great Gatsby in high school and thought, at the time, that it was OK. It took many years, and much m...

In a recent post, I gave my five arguments about why (some) books should continue on paper. But the reality is that the non-virtual books ...

Suddenly my daughter, E-girl, can't get enough of "The Dick Van Dyke Show." She begs to watch an episode of it whenever she h...

Thanks to David Simon, I am terrified of driving to Baltimore.  As an avid viewer of Homicide: Life on the Street , and now The Wire , I ha...

In case you didn't see it a few days ago, The Colbert Report vividly described the last, desperate option available to the magazine indu...

When I wrote about dance as an ephemeral art recently, I talked about how a dancer's career is shorter than a writer's because the ...