Netflix description: “Celebrate 50 years of mountaineering magic with this awe-inspiring documentary replete with sensational footage of Mount Everest. The award-winning National Geographic crew tracks the three children of mountain-climbing icons Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, the first two people ever to conquer the fabled peak.” My thoughts… This was one step below so-so. The story was shallow, the adult children of the early Everest adventurers were uninteresting, and even the scenery was bland. […]
Read moreMonth: September 2007
Arachno-terror
I guess one of the things that makes it difficult when a person leaves your daily life—a breakup, a death, even a child’s leaving home—is having to go through things a first time without them. This morning I had to go through my first spider without Lulu. If she’d been here she’d have appeared by my side with a camera in her hands and glee in her sadistic eyes. She seems to think it funny […]
Read moreWhere, Oh Where
I really don’t get it. Why am I so distraught? It’s the natural order of things that one’s child grows up and moves on. At least we hope that’s what they choose to do. There are always people like poor old (my age) Billy P. who still lives with his mother. (Maybe if he’d just change his name to “Bill” the spell would be broken?) But we all know that those people are creepy. Why, […]
Read moreHe Wasn’t Playing
Do you ever look at this blog, Lulu? If so, please give a peep via the blog’s peep mechanism. I’m writing to show you this picture I took for you a few minutes ago in our backyard.
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