Recently at a church meeting, a speaker told about his teenage son learning to drive. “We were out for a ride, and I kept correcting his driving. When we arrived back home, my son said I was too critical. I said it was my job to be critical because he was a student driver. “My […]

Recently at a thrift shop, I bought a lovely 8-inch stainless steel skillet. When we cook eggs, we like the whites to be done, but the yolks runny enough to soak into a piece of toast. Our expensive nonstick skillet had lost its no-stick ability, so I hoped this new frying pan would mark our […]

With “Trap,” writer/director M. Night Shyamalan has given us a half-decent movie. By which I mean that half of it is… decent. The first half delivers the taut thriller we’ve been promised, and it’s not great or anything, but it’s reasonably suspenseful and enjoyable. And then the movie becomes garbage. Not the unique, crazy garbage […]

You have five flavors of ice cream and plan to serve a different one each night for five nights in a row. In what order will you serve them? How many arrangements of five flavors are there, anyway? The first night, you have five choices. No matter which flavor you pick, the following evening there […]

If nothing else, “Deadpool & Wolverine” is Disney taking a victory lap for acquiring 20th Century Fox and the Marvel properties it controlled. We got a taste of this last year in “Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness” when the advertising bragged about bringing in Patrick Stewart’s Professor X from the X-Men and then […]