Oscar Nominations were announced this week, and some of the most interesting and diverse categories are always Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay. This year’s nominees in these categories include Woody Allen (Midnight in Paris), George Clooney (The Ides of March) and Michael Hazanavicius (for The Artist, a silent film – curious).   If you […]

Today we celebrate the life and accomplishments of Martin Luther King, Jr.  One of his most inspirational speeches follows here.  It is well worth taking the time to read it again.  What is the most inspirational thing you have ever read? I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in […]

    For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice,     And to make an end is to make a beginning. – T.S. Eliot, “Little Gidding”   As we ring in a new year, there is, of course, a lot of talk about New Year’s Resolutions.  You can talk about […]