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What I Learned at the Movies this Week-end (That Might Just Change Your Life)
Most good stories are about change. Over the Christmas week-end, people flocked to movies that portray lives in the midst of change – The Blind Side, Invictus, It’s Complicated, Avatar, Did You Hear About the Morgans, Up in the Air, Scrooge. It’s what we look for in great stories – a compelling character facing challenging …[ read more ]
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Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid
Man, I hate being scared. I’ve been scared all my life. I remember the dread when my mother would prepare dinner at night and ask me to go to the cellar to retrieve a can of “such-and-such”. Somewhere in the unexplored recesses of our basement “IT” lived. Down the splintery wooden stairs I would reluctantly …[ read more ]