Into the Woods–A Movie Review

By: Mary Fran Bontempo "Into the woods and out of the woods...and happily ever after!" When my middle child, Laura, was young, she saw a PBS version of the Stephen Sondheim musical, Into the Woods, which I taped for her on VHS. (Shows how long ago that was.) If she watched the show once, she watched it 500 times. To put it in a modern context, Into the Woods was Laura's Frozen. And [...]

2018-10-30T09:41:37-04:00January 9th, 2015|0 Comments

Christmas Gifts for People You Don’t Like

By: Mary Fran Bontempo Bye-bye Thanksgiving; hello shopping madness. For the next twenty-four days, most of us will be clomping around like the zombies on AMC's The Walking Dead, lurching from store to store in search of the perfect Christmas gifts for everyone on our lists, hoping for an appreciative "Ooohhh" or "Aaaahhh" for our efforts. Those efforts are assisted by the onslaught of advertising jammed down our throats advising us of what [...]

2018-10-30T09:41:44-04:00December 2nd, 2014|0 Comments
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