Claire Conger

I happened to be halfway through Richard Dawkins’s The God Delusion when I went to a dinner party. I was sitting happily on a bench in some cool people’s garden and getting pine sap on my $98 silk skirt, while trying to make conversation like I know what I’m saying. I offered “I think people who believe in God are idiots.”  Read more... (533 words, 4 images, estimated 2:08 mins reading time)

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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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I flipped on the TV for the first time in a month, hoping for a Masterpiece Theater mystery and what did I get? Dr Daniel Amen on making your brain healthy.  Read more... (409 words, 4 images, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)

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Thanks to reader Ada for turning us on to Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor and her book My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey.”

Read Ada’s comment on Wow! Oprah is Working with Happiness Guru Eckhart Tolle.  Read more... (251 words, 2 images, estimated 1:00 mins reading time)

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