DEBT ISN'T ALWAYS A FOUR-LETTER WORD

While I never gave my mother a lanyard, I did fashion a picture frame for my 1st grade school picture from bottle caps and scraps of wallpaper and felt it a full and equitable compensation. It's a debt, to both my parents, for which I am truly grateful.


MY MOVIE WILL BE BETTER

I love that movies at our library are only $1 to rent, but some should be free. Take, for example, the Jennifer Aniston/Vince Vaughn movie "The Break-Up". It was a good movie in that it accurately portrayed the bitterness and vitriol associated with the dissolution of a relationship. But, sheez folks, who wants to pay money to see that?! This was not a comedy. It was a drama. And the only drama it captured was the pain of a break-up; no pathos of the "moving on" or the "getting closure" just the raw hurt and betrayal of your love not being enough and the sick cycle of wanting more what you can't have. If I was a movie critic, I wouldn't know how to rate this. As a comedy it failed completely. As a drama, some of the fights were almost like a documentary. I swear they used the Jerry Springer show for research material or that other despicable program where couples on the edge move into a therapy house together. Not to be cruel, of course; movie stars are people, too, and could have been acting from their own experiences. A million dollars doesn't assuage the pain of rejection. Chocolate, however...