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Why I Won't Be Seeing "Wuthering Heights"

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When I was in middle school, my grandmother gave me a copy of Wuthering Heights for my birthday or Christmas. She was pleased and encouraged by the fact that I read obsessively, but I think he wanted to curb my interest in trashy modern novels and improve my mind with the classics. I was young enough to have not heard of the book yet and I knew nothing about it. The synopsis on the back of the book wasn’t helpful. It merely said it was about the tumultuous romance between Catherine Earnshaw and the “swarthy Heathcliff”. It said the romance was complicated, but that’s all it told me. This is the actual copy she gave me. It took me a long time to decide I was willing to pick up this dense and mysterious novel, but once I did, I was caught in a world I didn’t expect. This love story wasn’t romantic. In fact, I couldn’t grasp its central characters at all given that I wasn’t inside their heads and I was only reading about their story through secondhand accounts. Then the story continued...
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Seasonal Musings for February

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The first full moon of 2026, the “Wolf Moon” took place on January 3 rd . Although it was a chilly winter night, I had an urge to take a walk after dinner that evening. I wanted to take in some fresh air and have a conversation with the full moon. (She didn’t have much to say. Celestial bodies can’t talk.) I sat on a bench in the park for a few minutes and observed the moon peeking through the trees.  I thought about the next appearance of the full moon. It would be February 1 st . What would come to pass in this new year between now and then? Where will I be in a month? What will I be doing? The only certainty would be the moonrise would be a bit later because the day would be longer. A day or two earlier I noticed the sun hadn't set yet at 4:40 PM, but it was dusk at 4:50. I congratulated myself for observing the world around me enough to notice the subtle change in the length of the day. Anyone who knows me knows winter isn’t an easy season for me. I don’t like cold and I don’...
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2025 In Review (Featuring The Box)

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2025 was a strange year, wasn't it? I sometimes wonder if I will look back on 2025 as the beginning of the end of the world, or at least the end of my country as I know it. Our democratic republic has been hijacked by a megalomaniacal madman backed by billionaires trying to keep all power and wealth at the top. This country is losing its foreign allies. I never know which way the economy will go. Wars are raging. People are dying. The government is hiding vital information. All this happened in the space of a year. How much worse will it be? Isn't it funny how life still can go on as normal even as the world goes mad? Maybe the world is doomed and I am experiencing the the calm before the storm, but on a micro level 2025 was a good year. I spent time doing things I love with the people I love. I have The Box to prove it. For those of you who don't know what I am talking about, Kevin and I have an annual ritual. (I learned about this in a Facebook meme, so I guess social med...
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