My Current Interest

             As with most things I came upon the show Tavis Smiley by accident.   I was flipping through the channels and found the host, Tavis Smiley, talking to Tony Danza.   When I was younger I watched Mr. Danza’s show, Who’s the Boss? , and I was curious to see what he was up to now.   Mr. Danza was on the show to discuss his new book about the year he spent as a teacher.   It was an interesting conversation.   When the show was over I was happy I saw it, but did not think of watching Mr. Smiley’s show regularly.   Then I came upon the show again when he had Penny Marshall on speaking about her book.   I enjoyed that episode, and soon I was checking every day to see who was being featured on Tavis Smiley .                               ...

               I do not like Ryder.   This is something I am laying out there.   Since book one of the Inn Boonsboro Trilogy I have not liked him.   Now in the third book Ryder is the hero.   After finishing it, I find Ryder to be only slightly more appealing.   I do mean slightly.   With the series over, I still do not like him.                                           Since I do not like one of the main characters so much, you are probably wondering why I read the book at all.   There are two main reasons.   First, I read the first two and I wanted to finish the series.   Second, I was really interested to see what happened with the inn’s ghost, Lizzy.   By reading the ...

             Oh Jeopardy! , how I have missed you.   I used to watch every day.   Then the political campaigns began to heat up.   With all the political ads at every commercial break, I could not watch this show without going crazy.   For over a month I had to leave my Jeopardy! viewing in order to keep my sanity.   Now that the election is over, I am able to watch again.   That makes me very happy.                             Jeopardy! is a long running, and well-known, television quiz show.   I do not know of anyone who has not heard the song to the Final Jeopardy! round.   It is used all over the place.   While there are a lot of different quiz shows, Jeopardy! is a little different because you have to answer in the form of a question. ...

              For some reason there appears to be a belief that nothing and nobody good or of worth comes from the Midwest. I do not know where this mentality comes from, but I have heard it quite frequently in all sorts of media. As a person born and raised in the Midwest, it can be very frustrating to hear the cracks and implications about people from this part of the country. I know wonderful people have come from here. Dick Van Dyke is one of those people and I greatly enjoyed his book, My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business: A Memoir .              Raised in Danville, IL, Dick Van Dyke has had quite a lengthy and eclectic career. His most famous work is probably The Dick Van Dyke Show . Having never seen the show, I know Mr. Van Dyke because of Mary Poppins and Diagnosis: Murder . Reading this book, I discovered that these are onl...