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Tag Archives: movies
Why I’m so glad “Boyhood” won the Golden Globe
HUGE upset at the Golden Globe Awards tonight, as the relatively small indie film “Boyhood”, written and directed by Richard Linklater and starring, among others, Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette, won Best Motion Picture. It beat out “Selma” – … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Movies
Tagged Best Picture, Boyhood, create, Ethan Hawke, golden globes, movies, Richard Linklater
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It was a very good year
Someone I know recently posted the following link on Facebook: It’s a great clip. Emma Thompson (who has definitely been the highlight of the awards shows THIS year just by being her outrageous, humorous self) is funny and wonderful, but … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Life Learning, Movies, Unschooling, blogging
Tagged 12 Years a Slave, 1995, 1996 Golden Globes, American Hustle, August: Osage County, Braveheart, Dead Man Walking, Disney, Emma Thompson, Frozen, Get Shorty, Her, life learning, movies, Mr. Holland's Opus, Nebraska, Philomena, Pulitzer, Sense & Sensibility, The American President, Tracy Letts
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So long 2013, and thanks for a great year!
Maya told me yesterday that 2013 was her ‘best year ever’, and looking back I have to agree that it was a good one, thus totally debunking the myth that 13 is an unlucky number. (In our family we … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Family, Learning, Life Learning, Unschooling, Writing, blogging, books, holidays
Tagged Arlo Guthrie, Carnegie Hall, catching fire, cosmo, family, great big world, happy new year, learning, life learning, lucky 13, movies, Pete Seeger, say something, unschooling, wally, writing
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All I wanna do…
I’ve been blogging now for 3+ years. For the bulk of that time, I posted 4-5 days a week (in the beginning I posted every day), whether here or on my unschoolingnyc blog. If you’ve been reading what I write … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Family, Life Learning, Travel, blogging, books
Tagged blogging, books, copywriting, create, family, life learning, movies, romance, sewing, writing
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My latest Pop Culture update
I hereby present the things I’m enjoying right now, and that I recommend for anyone. Or at least to those who have a healthy love of pop culture and an equally healthy ability to suspend disbelief around certain – shall … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Family, Life Learning, Movies, Unschooling, blogging, books
Tagged Adam Levine, admission, beautiful creatures, ben's friend adam, billy burke, blake shelton, books, case histories, cee lo green, christina aquilera, dance academy, deception, facebook, family, hand-me-down, jack bristow, jj abrams, kate atkinson, lee nichols, life after life, life learning, lily tomlin, matthew macfadyen, michael sheen, movies, oz the great and powerful, revolution, ripper street, shakira, sydney, tales of a drama queen, the gatekeepers, the voice, tv, usher, victor garber
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The rainmakers
So we’re walking down West 12th Street today on our way to see our homeopath, and in the distance I see what at first I thought was billowing smoke. As we got closer, though, I saw that it was … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Life Learning, Movies
Tagged homeopath, lifelearning, movies, movies in nyc, rainmakers, west 12th st
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Living by example
Sometimes the best thing we can do for our kids is to live a full life. It doesn’t have to be a big life, full of grand events and flashy achievements; it only needs to be genuine. This past … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Family, Life Learning, Movies, Parenting, Photography, Unschooling, Writing, blogging, books
Tagged becca fitzpatrick, books, Central Park, clare vanderpool, django unchained, don johnson, hush hush, judging a book by its lover, lauren leto, life learning, movies, navigating early, quentin tarantino, the academy, the last runaway, tracy chevalier, twilight, unschooling
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Stuff that makes me happy… (can you guess?)
If you’re guessing this is going to be a post about the wonders of family or learning outside of school, you are so wrong. Yes, those things are great. Yes, they make me happy. But I’m here to talk movies … Continue reading
Posted in Movies, Writing, blogging, books
Tagged a casual vacancy, accelerated, angelology, anne hathaway, argo, beautiful redemption, ben affleck, books, bronwen hruska, charlie boorman, days of blood & starlight, ewan mcgregor, j.k. rowling, Jane Eyre, judi dench, laini taylor, les miserables, lincoln, london, long way round, louder than words, mia wasikowska, Michael Fassbender, morning glory alwin küchler, motorcycles, movies, New York, oliver pötsch, photobiker.com, skyfall, the intouchables, the page turner, unschooling
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Supporting a creative path
Picked up a great book yesterday, titled, “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, by Austin Kleon. Fostering creativity is something I’ve come to value more and more and for which I will cast … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Education, Life Learning, Movies, Unschooling, Writing, blogging
Tagged acting, dance, fiction, gymnastics, learning, life learning, movies, nora roberts, photography, ray bradbury, Theater, unschooling, writing
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“Seeking a Friend”, “People Like Us” & a few more
Way back in November of 2010 I wrote a blog post about some movies I like. I then went on a bit of a frenzy and wrote a list of 100 (!) movies that I would recommend, complete with … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Family, Life Learning, Movies
Tagged chris pine, dreaming of joseph lees, elizabeth banks, keira knightley, life learning, michelle pfeiffer, movies, people like us, seeking a friend for the end of the world, steve carrell, to rome with love, unschooling, woody allen
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