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“But this does not define you…”
Cover image from Moana. Screen cap via. An approximation of how I’ve felt the past few weeks. I’ve had a rough few weeks. Personally, professionally, mentally, emotionally, physically… you name it. It’s been difficult to fire on all cylinders. After a particularly trying week, I gave myself permission this weekend to just be. Terry and I…
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EXPeriencing Wonder Woman
Cover image via. Caution: There’s a spoiler below. My husband made me cry because of Wonder Woman. Don’t worry, they were happy tears. We saw Wonder Woman this afternoon, and were both blown away. Not only was it a great story with great acting and awesome fight scenes and explosions that make all good superhero movies worthwhile,…
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A Woman’s Place Is in the Resistance
Cover photo art by Hayley Gilmore and is available for download along with her other designs! Thank you, Hayley! Well it’s been a bit of a week, I’d say. On Wednesday, January 18, I saw Hamilton in Chicago with my best friend. It’s hard to put the experience into words (without a lot of superlatives). After…
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Re-EXPeriencing My Love of [All] Movies
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Cover image via. Two weeks ago the Republican National Convention ended, and I needed a distraction from reality. After looking through my collection of movies I’ve seen a million times, I turned on Netflix to find something else. Criminal Minds didn’t seem appealing; neither did Fixer Upper. So I turned to the movie section and found that…
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EXPeriencing ‘Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens’
(Image via Reddit. Warning: Mild spoilers below.) In March of this year, I blogged about how I became a Star Wars fan. I concluded that post saying I was “pretty freaking excited” to see The Force Awakens in theaters. How excited was I? Excited enough to go without my husband, the much bigger Star Wars fan,…
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EXPeriencing This Week’s Casting Announcements
Cover images via Zimbio & BlackFilm. This week saw two very different casting announcements for two projects I’m invested in: Netflix’s Daredevil and Ghostbusters (the all-female Ghostbusters reboot, to be exact). First was Tuesday’s announcement that Jon Bernthal would be joining the cast of Daredevil as The Punisher. Jon Bernthal, you may know, played Shane in…
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Getting the Entire Shawshank Redemption EXPerience
This post contains spoilers about The Shawshank Redemption. All photos by me. My mom isn’t like most moms. She loves horror movies, and her favorite movie is The Exorcist. She was in the Army in the 70s, had kids in her mid-to-late 30s, and jumped back into the workforce a widow and 20-year stay-at-home mom. So…
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Becoming a Star Wars Fan
When I started this post, it was meant to be a review of the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars. But by the time I had finished my intro and even begun talking about the series, I was at nearly 400 words and the post about the show itself was only going to get…
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