My Current Interest

              When I saw Tony Danza on Tavis Smiley I knew he had become a teacher but I did not know he had written a book about it.   That is what Mr. Danza was on Tavis Smiley to talk about.   Not being a teacher myself, but knowing people who are, I was intrigued.   After the protests by teachers, amongst many other groups, in Wisconsin’s state capitol last year, I thought reading about someone’s experience with teaching would be a really good idea.   Having the book be about his first year teaching made it even more interesting.                                To start off, Mr. Danza does admit that his year of teaching was a little different as he did not have a full class schedule.   All the other teachers did, but he did not. So with all that Mr. Danza went through, multiply that stress in order to figure out how much the teachers with the full class schedule dealt with.   I am not saying Mr. Danza did not give it his all.   He certainly did as he truly cared about the

               This year I have been inundated with Christmas movies.   It is to the point that I was sick of them by the end of November.   There were a few I continued to watch after that point.   The Most Wonderful Time of the Year is one movie I rarely ever turn away from.                                When my brother bought this for my mother, he referred to it as “The Fonzie Movie” and we have affectionately called it that ever since.   Starring Henry Winkler and Warren Christie, Mr. Winkler is not playing the character of Fonzie.   He is Uncle Ralph.   A retired New York cop, Ralph is going to Chicago to spend Christmas with his niece, Jennifer, and her young son, Brian.   Having not flown in decades, Ralph becomes confused at the airport.   Seeing a problem, Morgan (Warren Christie) offers to help.   Discovering they are both going to Chicago, Morgan gets Ralph into first class and they get to know each other during the flight.   Morgan tells Ralph about all his trave

               Sitting in the library chair one Saturday afternoon, nothing was really grabbing my attention as to something I wanted to read. Then for some reason the title Altar of Bones jumped out at me. Why that one of all the books on the shelf, I do not know. When I read the inside cover, I thought it could be a really interesting mystery/thriller book. That is exactly what it was.                 There are a lot of different characters in this book that span generations. All of them are important to what is going on, even those who are in the story for a short time. Despite so many characters, it is clear the main two are Zoe and Ry. At the start of the book they do not know the other even exists. They are each awarded their own mission, but Zoe and Ry discover they need each other in order to succeed.                   Ry’s father is dead. His brother has been murdered. Someone is trying to kill him. Now Ry is on a mission to find the woman who holds a lon

               On the surface Crooked Arrows is a movie about the sport of lacrosse.   A lot of the summaries I have read about the film seem to imply this.   How wrong they are.   Lacrosse is an important element of the story, but it is not the main point.   There is so much more going on.   This movie is about heritage and remembering where you come from.                            Lacrosse is not just an activity to the people of the Native American reservation Joe Logan grew up on.   It is their history.   Their ancestors invented the game and they continue to honor and play it every day.   The problem is the high school lacrosse team is not very good compared to the other teams in the area.   While the players clearly have skill, they are not organized and do not know how to put everything together in order to win.   Joe was a star lacrosse player as a teenager, but he is not interested in helping the team.   What he wants is to convince the reservation that letting a devel