Out of My Mind by Alan Arkin is a brand new Audible Original for December. It was a free read (I have a monthly membership.) Well, it was nice to spend a few hours with Alan Arkin. I like audio performances because so often you get to listen to the author read their work. When […]
Category: The Journey
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
I read/reread Orlando by Virginia Woolf this weekend. I remember being 21, playing a production of Ain’t Misbehavin‘ at a dinner theater in Florida when I was reading it the last time. That was several decades ago, and I remember that it didn’t make sense to me, I couldn’t keep the storyline in my head, […]
Team Atlas in Tucson
Team Atlas participated in a Nose Work 3 trail in Tucson yesterday. It was a well run trial (although I didn’t care of the Christian rock playing in one of the rooms where they held us.) We false alerted on our first two elements (interiors and containers). We’ve been having some trouble with containers recently–it’s […]
One More Sentence
The Lathe of Heaven
The Strumbellas
Yesterday’s Song of the Day on Amazon Music was “Salvation” by The Strumbellas. I’d never heard of this band before. I love the dance-floor vibe of this song. (It’s incredibly rare for me to feel like dancing–I usually don’t see the point and would rather listen to the music and talk.) This is one of […]
Rock and a Hard Place
The Green Book
Went to see The Green Book. I expect that Mahershala Ali (Don Shirley) and Viggo Mortensen (Tony Vallelonga) will both be nominated for Academy Awards. Both actors offered solid performances. This is a story that needs to be told. The majority of us don’t know enough about this time in history (1961 in the US deep south). […]