Usually, when I re-read books about which I formed an opinion in my teen years, my (ahem) mature assessment is very different, because my teenage self was an idiot. Sometimes the re-read is a disappointment (Robert E. Howard, John A. Keel); others are complete revelations (F. Scott Fitzgerald). With my thirty-years-later re-visit of The Catcher in…
Movies Seen Recently: Jurassic World, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Minions
Jurassic World (2015) – All that you really need to know about this movie is that my eighteen-year-old son said, “IT’S SO AWESOME!” Because that’s exactly who it’s designed to be awesome for: People young enough that a Jurassic Park movie is a periodic installment of more-of-the-same (in the way that people my age used…
Oh, Utah…
So my son Alex graduated from Weber State University on Friday, and congratulations to him, but this post isn’t about that. But every time I have an occasion to read a list of random names here in Utah — a choir concert, an honor roll, or in this case the midwinter graduating class at Weber…