In the spirit of taking time to reflect on New Year's Eve, we want to present two sides of reflection: looking back and looking forward.
...Category: Holidays
Hallmark-style Christmas Movies: A Lagging Indicator of Changing Social Norms
For me, romantic comedies set at Christmas are like chocolate pecan pie – treacly and high fructose. I wouldn’t want more than a couple pieces a year, and when someone asks me what my favorite kind of pie is, I never say chocolate pecan, but I usually think about it. You know what you’re going to get, and you know how you’re going to feel afterwards.
The demographic for the Hallmark Channel is women between the ages of 25 and 54.
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...Superman and God’s Top Ten Supergifts for this Holiday Season
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...Winter Blues? Go Green!
“Hope is the thing with feathers. / It perches in the soul.” – Emily Dickinson
I have been thinking and talking about hope a lot this year, and especially in the last few weeks. There have been many times that I have felt profoundly hopeless, but strangely, I find the little bird in my soul reawakening as we head into the final month of 2020 and the bleakest, shortest days of the month.
...Ask Me Why I Don’t Eat Meat
My dad just sent a picture of a majestic buck standing in the yard of my childhood home, with my parents’ dormant vegetable garden in the background. Right now, with the blog and the book ever-present in my mind, I was reminded of my first ever attempt at writing an essay for Superman and God, one that arose from an advocatus diaboli argument Jon and I were having one Sunday morning at the IU library.
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