Julie and Julia

Since 12 is so into cooking (we had an Alton Brown Christmas this year), I thought when I was out looking for movies, that this would be the one for him. He did, in fact, like it a lot more than I think other 12 year old boys would have, since it is about two middle-aged women, well, cooking.

For me, it was a good time for self-reflection as I watched Julie Powell obsess over something that was, in some sense, completely unimportant, emotionally collapse over it, and nearly destroy her marr...