We thought he wasn’t sleeping because he was excited. We were all excited. The limousine was arriving at 8 am to whisk us away to the airport for Edward’s Make-a-Wish trip to New York City. So we were excited. But as he lay in the bed next to me at 3 am, not sleeping, I could […]
Category Archives: Captain America
This is What it Would Sound Like if Summer Blockbusters Still Had Radio Hits
Pink has a new song out on the radio these days called “Just Like Fire” and it is from the movie “Alice Through the Looking Glass,” which is shaping up to be one of the big summer blockbuster movies this year. It’s a good song, but it really doesn’t have anything to do with the […]
The Only Important Difference Between Wonder Woman and Captain America
Well, we are out of the hospital now and, while we are not settled and out of the woods just yet, at least we are home. But while Edward was stuck there last week he got a visit from a couple of superheroes. I was out teaching a voice lesson, but local friend and lesser-known superhero […]
The Difference Between a Storyteller and a Character: on Joss Whedon, Age of Ultron, and the Problem with Twitter
Joss Whedon quit Twitter a few days ago. He hasn’t said exactly why, but I think we can all use some educated guessing and rampant speculation to assume that it is because everyone on Twitter was shouting at him. You see, there are some people very angry about his new movie, Avengers: Age of Ultron. They […]
I Know He’s Around Here Somewhere…
Things have changed. It used to be, back in the day, that the first thing Edward would run to as we entered the doors of Toys R Us would be the trains. There are always train tracks set up, and I would feel very comfortable wandering around the store doing all of his Christmas shopping […]