My Game plan for 2014: Get my novel published:  I will get editors, a cover designer, and a […]

Photo Friday: Cold Play

This week school got canceled because of another Arctic Vortex.  That means the air temperature is below zero.  […]

I always wanted to make Borscht.  So for my last post during January, National Soup month, I did. […]

I prepared borscht today for my final January Soup of the Month post. But…. My Mark Lucker from […]

I love the Movies.  I watch a lot of movies.  Just last night, I saw Desperado on TV.

I go to the movie theatre a lot.  Nothing beats the feel of a big picture in a dark theatre, surrounded by a crowd with common emotional response.

I think I went as often this year as any other year, but I have a lot of movies to go to get ready for the Oscars this year.  The awards are March 2.

Here are the numbers:

56 films nominated,

  • 10 I’ve already seen;
  • 1 I’m not sure whether I’ve seen (Iron Man 3); and
  • 3 that I don’t want to see (The Hobbit, August:  Osage County, Bad Grandpa)
  • 14 that I don’t have access to (the short films, the documentaries, the foreign films)

That means I have 50% of the films left.

OMG, I am officially daunted.  I’ll never make it.

I have 28 films to watch in 33 days.

I have a plan:  I’ll watch

Photo Friday: The Color of Cold

The coldest days are clear and sunny.  Beautiful. Funny how that works out.

It’s still January, so it’s still National Soup Month. I got this soup from Facebook. I made a […]

 

marengo sunset-ae2I hate navigating the landscape of health insurance.  Before I became self-employed, I weighed the pros and cons of the insurance programs my employer offered.  Loved-One and I are both healthy, so in all our years of working for The Man, we rarely met the deductable.  As a self-insured free-lance writer, I hemmed and hawed about purchasing health insurance.  Sure we’re healthy, but the what-ifs plagued me.

After much research and policy comparisons, we purchased high deductable insurance coverage from Aetna.  It costs more than $10,000 a year.  In anticipation of the Affordable Health Care Act, each policy every insurers offered covered routine testing and an annual physical.

I read the Affordable Health Care Law.  Ask me a question if you want.  I can find it and give you the answer, and quote page number.  I can tell you

I decided in my twenties that when I die, I’ll be cremated. I hate funerals.  Especially open caskets.  […]

My sister-in-law took this picture of my brother, her husband.  That’s our grand-nephew cuddled up with a book. […]