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The Baby-Sitters Club on Netflix

Okay, things I loved about The Baby-Sitters Club on Netflix: The girls actually look their age. As an 8, 9, 10-year-old reading the books, I sometimes thought the pictures of the girls on the covers made them look like they were in their late teens rather than early teens. Especially when I turned 12 and … Continue reading The Baby-Sitters Club on Netflix

Hello from a Heatwave

Why yes, people of the Internet, there is indeed life without needing to document it every second of every day or even look at social media. It’s almost magical. Basically, I’ve just taken a whole Twitter hiatus, protected my tweets, deleted the app off my phone, changed the password. Incidentally, I just didn’t feel like … Continue reading Hello from a Heatwave

On Watching the #HamilFilm

Being a major Hamilfan, of course I wanted to see the filmed version of the stage musical Hamilton, now available on Disney+. It’s the original cast, filmed in 2016 in the theater. I saw the show in November 2015 when the original cast was still in the show, except for Jonathan Groff as King George III—we … Continue reading On Watching the #HamilFilm

Potential Period Drama Fodder: Angelica Schuyler Church

In celebration of Hamilton being on Disney+ from today, I want to talk about someone in Alexander Hamilton’s life that I want to know more about. His sister-in-law, Angelica Schuyler Church. The musical took some artistic license with her life, so let’s get facts down first. Angelica was the oldest child of Phillip Schuyler and … Continue reading Potential Period Drama Fodder: Angelica Schuyler Church

Hey, Whatcha Reading?

I’ve been having trouble concentrating enough on reading most things during this quarantine period, but I’m reading a book now, so I decided to ask myself the questions. We’ll see if I get around to actually finishing this book or not. What are you currently reading? Right now, I have three books I’m in the … Continue reading Hey, Whatcha Reading?

Potential Period Film Fodder: Florence Mills

The first time I heard of Florence Mills was through the musical Shuffle Along, or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed. Today, I was doing something for an assignment for my Summer 1 class, which is about museums and collection development, and we started a class project on vaudeville. … Continue reading Potential Period Film Fodder: Florence Mills

On Curtailing Social Media…

…before my brain explodes. Last year, after my friend Krystal wrote a post about her social media usage, I wrote a post about social media, too: On Social Media. Around that time, I had limited my Facebook usage and not long after that, I deleted my Facebook author page. Earlier this year, I deleted my … Continue reading On Curtailing Social Media…

Potential Period Drama Fodder: Chiune Sugihara

Our next Potential Period Drama Fodder has, in fact, already featured in documentaries and an Oscar-winning short film called Visas and Virtue. There is also a movie about him called Persona Non Grata. With this year being the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz , it seems appropriate to mention Chiune Sugihara, whose story … Continue reading Potential Period Drama Fodder: Chiune Sugihara

On Deleting Your Self-Published Work

I took Pearl and When Mary Left off Amazon and other sellers today. Id been thinking of taking at least Pearl down for a while. I self-published it in 2015 and while I will always be proud of writing it and self-publishing it, Im not sure I did the story justice. Like all of us Continue reading On Deleting Your Self-Published Work

Hey, Whatcha Reading?

1. What are you currently reading?  According to my Kindle, Im 5% of the way through reading How To Do Nothing: Resisting The Attention Economy by Jenny Odell, and its a perfect read for anyone who spends too much online or who is down on themselves for not maximizing their personal or professional productivity during Continue reading Hey, Whatcha Reading?