Ordinary People and Superheroes for Sunday, April 6, 2003

The movie Spiderman was unusually good for a comic strip movie. It is because the original comic was well written, too. My grandchildren all love Spiderman. They cuddle during the scary parts and then immitate his actions. He was a superhero when my thiry year old son was a child. So he can share... Sign in to see full entry.

When I took a shower this morning, I grabbed a wet towel and thought--a dry towel is one of those simple pleasures of life. The other one is our gas stove in the solar room which looks like a woodstove but uses gas instead. I can get almost too hot in the room. In these days of energy conservation... Sign in to see full entry.

When I wrote realistic novels, at first I put in too many details and the conversations were too long. Real life is full of ordinary moments with occassional moments of great pain, joy, chaos or whatever. The ordinary everyday is easier to live through. You have time to enjoy the moment, do a few... Sign in to see full entry.