An Incredibly Overblown Reaction To A Rather Insignificant Incident, or Why The Dalai Lama Should Ride The Bus

(This post was originally written back in March 2016.  Seeing as how the Dalai Lama ended up in the news recently and realizing that with Earth Day coming up, I’m doing my part to recycle.  Here is a moderately revamped and hardly reedited version for you, dear readers.  I know you don’t want me working …

What’s A Mother’s Movies To Do?: Stalag 17

Time to continue the journey down the rabbit hole, exploring of some of my late mother’s favorite films.  Her tastes leaned more towards the classic rather than the modern, and I’m completely fine with that.  Far too often we jump into the new and flashy thing with both feet and then dispose of it three minutes later …