Fangirl
Sometime in the middle of Covid before vaccines when we were completely locked down, I became obsessed with watching videos of Sutton Foster. I’d heard of her in a far-off way—Broadway actress, Tony Award winner, on the show Bunheads. But I really didn’t know her work. Then a friend pointed me toward a 90th birthday […]
Blue Bayou, film about Korean American adoptee
I’m posting here the NPR review of Blue Bayou, the story of a Korean American adoptee who faces deportation. Filmmaker Justin Chon, who is not himself adopted, has said he was inspired by the case of Adam Crapser, the Korean American adoptee who had run-ins with the law, lacked legal citizenship papers and was deported. […]
Qwirkle
My oldest sister Patrice moved in with us soon after Covid hit and, along with her new Chihuahua Clementine, is still here. Patrice and I have developed a serious and competitive after-dinner board game Qwirkle habit—reminding me of our childhood marathons of Monopoly, which were also serious and competitive, in which Patrice always was the […]