My Current Interest

Photo of DVD cover taken by Kate Dorsey      Even though I own this movie, I have not watched A League of Their Own in a very long time. When I came across it on TV I remembered how much I like it. I also remembered there is one part I have a really hard time with. This part lasts maybe two minutes, but I still find it difficult to watch. That is why it is good the rest of the movie is so enjoyable.      Dottie (Geena Davis) and Kit (Lori Petty) are two sisters recruited to try out for the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) during World War II. Actually, Dottie is the only one recruited and she does not want to go. Kit convinces the recruiter (Jon Lovitz) to take her, but there is a condition. The only way Kit can come to the tryouts is if Dottie comes too. Kit manages to convince Dottie to go to the tryouts and they both make it onto the Rockford Peaches. They befriend the other women on the team, and settle in, but tensions between ...

                Earlier this year I wrote about the series Midsomer Murders which I absolutely adore. I knew the shows were based on books, but I never chose to read one until recently. The Killings at Badger’s Drift is the first in the series of books by Caroline Graham that star Chief Inspector Barnaby and Sergeant Troy.                              Emily Simpson is an elderly former teacher who witnesses something she should not have. Not long later Ms. Simpson is found dead. Due to her age, the death is ruled as natural causes. Her best friend, Lucy Bellringer, does not believe the determined cause of death and takes her concerns to Chief Inspector Barnaby. He decides to check out the situation with the assistance of a reluctant Sergeant Troy. What they encounter...

               As is to be expected, I was quite hooked on the U.S. Open. While my love of tennis and cheering on my favorite players was enough of a reason to watch, this time there was another one as well. The 2012 U.S. Open was the last tournament for Kim Clijsters before her retirement. When the tournament began I was really hoping she would win the women’s singles title again. Sadly, Ms. Clijsters lost in the second round. As she is one of only two female tennis players I seek out to watch, it is sad to see her go. I have great respect for Ms. Clijsters and I wish her the best.              This is the second retirement for Ms. Clijsters. When she came back from her first retirement I did not really know who she was. Her name was familiar, but as I have said before, I mostly pay attention to the men’s side of t...

               After finding this television series in a catalog, the first season discs sat on my movie list a long time before they moved far enough up to ship.   Now that I have seen a few of the discs, I have to ask myself: Why did I wait so long?   The first episode I was unsure about because it was stiff, but every episode after that has been wonderful.                              Set in Victorian era Canada, Detective William Murdoch (Yannick Bisson) is an unusual member of the police force.   He looks at things differently and does not go for the easy answer.   In many ways Murdoch lives his life in a very conservative manner, but he is open minded all at the same time.   On top of this, Murdoch is a very sweet and caring man.   I do not se...

          This book caught my attention on the library shelf for months. I kept picking it up, reading the back, and returning it to the shelf. It interested me, and I wanted to read the book, but I was never quite in the right mood. There was something that made me believe the story would end up sad and dreary. Finally I brought the book home. Not only was it not sad and dreary, but I had a hard time putting the book down.            Lucy is a New York dressmaker. Her father has died and she has taken on the responsibility of making sure her mother and teenage sister are okay. As a former sweatshop worker, Lucy knows the dress shop she works in is a better situation for her and her family. Despite this knowledge, Lucy cannot resist putting forth her unsolicited ideas for the wardrobe of a handicapped young society woman. The shop mistress is not happy with Lucy, ...

              There is so much of the world I would love to see.   When I think of all the places I want to go, I find there are far too many for me to count.   This is why I envy Josh Gates and his Destination Truth team.   Well, I envy them to a point.                 The premise of Destination Truth is a team of investigators travel the world searching for creatures of local lore.   They look for all sorts of things.   From Bigfoot-like animals to ghosts and everything in between, the team tries to find what has been witnessed for years by those living in the area.   Sometimes it is a journey to get to the location itself, but once they do, witnesses are interviewed and the investigation begins.   This is where my envy stops.   During the dark of night, the team puts themselves in some precarious po...

          Nearly every day of the seventeen or so days of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London I watched something. I will admit, most of my dedicated viewing was in the beginning and waned as the second week was reached. This is because many of the events of interest to me were held early on. While I have heard complaints of the tape delay, it did not really bother me. The main reason for this is probably because the sport most important to me, tennis (is anyone surprised by this?), was aired live and even put on its own channel. That was a brilliant decision in my opinion. I had a great time watching tennis in the morning and part of the afternoon, then switching to gymnastics, swimming, and diving at night. Often times I already knew the results of the night events, but that was okay. I still wanted to see how everything happened. One thing I did not like about the tape delay was how little I was able to see of certain things. ...