Claire Conger

Shine (1996) turns out to be a rather romantic movie. It’s the story of a young prodigy pianist who loses it at music college, turns into a pleasure-seeking adult without proper social constraints, an idiot-savant, if you will, and ends up getting lucky in middle age.

The movie is a loose adaption of the life of David Helfgott, an Australian concert pianist.  Read more... (1 word, 2 images, estimated 0 secs reading time)

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I just watched a very sweet movie, Sex, Lies, and Videotape(1989).

Andie MacDowell shines as a newly married housewife, Ann, caught in a love quadrangle. The movie has a slow, dreamy pace that runs at the speed of Ann’s unfolding. We follow her as she figures out what’s going on and brings into alignment what she wants and who she is with what she has.  Read more... (8 words, 2 images, estimated 2 secs reading time)

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Any book that gives me insight into why things are happening to me is priceless. Your Body Believes Every Work You Say by Barbara Hoberman Levine is just such a book.

I read Ms Levine’s section about patients anticipatory thoughts about radiation treatment for cancer predicting their results. The patient who thought of the radiation as “black and red arrows spraying his body” had a bad result while the patient who thought of the radiation as a “golden beam of energy” had a good result. (See page 164.)  Read more... (16 words, 2 images, estimated 4 secs reading time)

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It started off well, my last date with Pseudo Boyfriend #2. I was in a good and receptive mood. It started with the potential for him getting lucky, lucky in bed with me.

But in the course of two hours, he went from potentially lucky to never going to see me again!  Read more... (463 words, 2 images, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)

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OK, because I have too many Pseudo Boyfriends and no Real Ones, I figure I’d better make a study of Dr Phil’s Love Smart.

First things first, Dr Phil tells us to figure out who we are and what we want, else we’ll be wasting our time barking up the wrong trees. Well, I’ve wasted my time plenty and I am not alone.  Read more... (505 words, 14 images, estimated 2:01 mins reading time)

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