The Joy of The Airport Reunion

Did you see the movie ‘Love Actually’? It’s one of my favorite movies. I particularly like the scene at the airport where arriving passengers are shown coming out of the customs area to be greeted by their loved ones. While reunions with visiting or returning loved ones are always a special occasion, I think it’s a lot more exciting waiting at a terminal for that first glimpse than seeing them arrive on your doorstep, but maybe that’s because these kinds of reunions have always been a part of my life.

Movie Review - Lee Daniels' The Butler

Lee Daniels’ The Butler is a powerful movie, based loosely on a true story, about an African-American man, Cecil Gaines, who rises from being a house-boy on a southern plantation to being a butler at the White House during the presidencies from Eisenhower to Reagan.

Movie Review - The Place Beyond The Pines

A story of consequences, The Place Beyond the Pines revolves around the decisions made by a motor-cycle stuntman after he discovers that he is a father, and the ramifications his actions have on the life of a policeman whom he comes up against.

A Scary Future for Personal Relationships?

I’m sure I’m like many others when I say I have a love-hate attitude towards new technology. I can’t deny that my work as a writer and a telecommuting accountant has been made much easier by the advent of word-processors, emails and online publication, but at the same time I feel uncomfortable about the way society seems to be shifting towards an ever increasing use of technology in personal relationships. That might explain why I found the book ‘Alone Together’ by Sherry Turkle such a fascinating, if rather sad, read.