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Mildred Bevel is the wife of very rich Andrew Bevel.  Her body has been weakening and she's now in the same Swiss health spa and sanitar...

"If an explanation contradicts the sense of who a person is, it can be damaging. There should be more attention paid to the way people ...

 The Bear Tooth was practically empty today.  The film was huge.  It quickly expanded from a mother/daughter relationship into mental health...

Aminatta Forna's novel starts with a Wolfer killing the last pair of wolves in Greenhampton, Massachusetts  in 1834.  One of the key cha...

  These hoya flowers are past their prime.  It's a natural part of the cycle of birth and death.    From Bloomscape: "Hoya plants a...

 On May 14, 2018 I began a blog post like this: Congressional Republicans Show Signs of Battered Wife Syndrome Medical News Today says batte...

The decline of Alaska's oil wealth has been predicted for a long time. It's why the Alaska Permanent Fund was established.  Knowing ...

  I was watching a video on YouTube about regional accents in the US and when it was over, a video on narcissism  showed up.  Eight question...

 I guess this is a film festival post because I'm starting with a film I saw the other night - Paper Spiders . In the film a widow lives...

I finally figured out the Q&A scheduling [it's tricky just seeing the times, so I've put up a schedule on the AIFF2020 page abov...

 I'm falling way behind here.  I'm pretty much picking pictures based on the photo, title, and description.  Here are some I think a...

Usually Saturday is really busy during the festival with films starting as early as 9 am some years.  But we've somehow gotten into a ro...

1.  Virus Notes Yes, it's a paradox - the more you shut things down, the more it hurts the economy, but then the less you shut things ...

 Richard Powers'  The Overstory  is a great distraction during a pandemic.  Here's just one illuminating quote:...

There are so many things to post that I get overwhelmed.  A few drafts are backed up as I write and rewrite and gather more information and ...

The world is complicated and humans are constantly tracking down the linkages between different factors.  The first seems much easier to und...

There are 12 films in this group and I've got six here and will do a second post with the other six.  We've got a film here with two...