Footlooser: With dancing in public outlawed due to social distancing, Ren McCormack becomes a TikTok star. The Breakfast Club II: While waiting for their teacher to log in, the kids in English class who never talked to each other find that each is different than they thought. They eventually realize that they logged in to… [Read More]
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Recapping Velvet: Season 1, Episode 7, “Paris”
Warning: there are plenty of spoilers about the Spanish drama Velvet ahead. Fashion Insight: You can never go wrong with Chanel Ross and Rachel of the Week: Clara and Mateo Spanish Culture Clue: An out-of-wedlock child isn’t nearly as scandalous as one would expect it might in the Catholic Spain of the Franco era. I suspect… [Read More]
The Investment Value of Residential Real Estate
The single biggest purchase most families will make is their house. There’s a lot of mythology about the economic benefits of homeownership, and I’d like to break through that so that you can make the best decision for you and your family. To start off, my parents paid about $5,000 54 years ago for a… [Read More]
Nuns taught me to write cursive. I taught myself to type so that I could be understood.
I’m sure handwriting advocates dream of a mythical past in which biological females in plaid jumpers and biological males in white shirts and neckties sit with perfect posture and correct paper slant, quietly writing “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” over and over. My guess is that their vision does not include… [Read More]
Fireworks and the Fourth of July
My grandfather was born on July 4, in England. He always said he had no choice but to emigrate because no one in England knew how to celebrate his birthday. His family moved from a coal-mining town in Northern England to a coal-mining town in Western Pennsylvania. In high school, my grandfather became involved with… [Read More]
