Opinion
Coffee Time: “IT’S REALLY HARD TO LIKE YOU”
Ever been looked squarely in the eyes and bluntly told you are a bitter, angry person? Probably not. After all, who in their right mind wants to be within twelve feet of a bear and throw heavy stones at that huge, furious mass of muscle and bone? Nobody wants to face that. Facing that bear…
Read MoreMovie Review: “A Quiet Place: Day One”
“A Quiet Place: Day One” made a grave miscalculation with its advertising. Scenes were filmed with the intention of putting them in the trailers, but not the movie. This way, when people saw the movie, they wouldn’t be able to properly anticipate the surprises and story progression. To that end, the advertising succeeded, I was indeed…
Read MoreKara’s Sights and Bites: Best food and travel items of 2024…so far, anyway
I’m not sure how – or when – it happened, but 2024 is more than halfway done. Before more time elapses, here are the items that have made cooking, eating and traveling a little more memorable in the first six months. 1. The first one is actually a combination food/travel find: A road trip of…
Read MoreMovie Review: “The Bikeriders”
Watching “The Bikeriders,” the word “inauthentic” kept driving through my mind. For example, I wasn’t buying pretty-boy Austin Butler as a tough biker. There is a planet where Butler can come off as intimidating and that planet is called Arrakis. Here on Earth, he looks like a clean-cut actor making…
Read MoreKara’s Sights and Bites: Three new things to love about the Mississippi Gulf Coast
I’ve always loved the Mississippi Gulf Coast for its unending natural beauty stretching as far as the eye can see…among hundreds of other attributes, of course. But there’s a feature remains one of the primary reasons I visit as often as possible. It’s the fact that just when I think I’ve seen and explored everything,…
Read MoreHudson’s Journey: EXTRA Rare
Recently, CJ took us on a beautiful vacation. We love cruising for many reasons, so we boarded the newest ship The Icon of the Seas . Traveling with Hudson presents many challenges, but …
Read MoreMovie Review: “Inside Out 2”
Back in 2015, Disney and Pixar introduced us to 11-year-old Riley and the squabbling emotions inside her prepubescent head. To make a long story short, Joy (Amy Poehler) tried to retain dominance over the girl, but Sadness (Phyllis Smith) kept creeping her way in. The struggle led to both emotions getting kicked out of Riley’s…
Read MoreKara’s Sights & Bites: 4th of July favorites that don’t require an oven
Newsflash: Fourth of July 2024 will be a hot one. Since it’s a couple of weeks away, I haven’t yet seen the weather report. But I just know it will be hot – maybe …
Read MoreCoffee Time: “IT TAKES COURAGE TO BE A LOSER”
Losing is not for the faint-hearted. It takes its toll on your mind, your emotions, and your body, no doubt about it. It literally takes a champion at heart to lose, because you have to have a lot of …
Read MoreCoffee Time: “DON’T BE A SUPERHERO”
Don’t kid yourself. You ain’t ever gonna be that strong, that good, or that important! To anyone in your world. No matter how hard you try, or how great you believe that you are.
In …
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