Parkas for Everybody!

We were in New York for a few days a couple of weeks ago, as you might remember. Or maybe not. Before we got there, there was a little airport shenanigans on both ends. Not ours, oddly enough. First, we were at Raleigh-Durham International waiting for our flight, and I pulled out my notebook to…

Sometimes you don’t realize how much something has been a part of your life until you end up crying like a baby at a Judds concert. Crying like a baby, that’s Shawna’s descriptor. I thought of it more as hysterical sobbing I thought was never going to let up, but, praise be to all gods, lasted…

In my desperate attempt to catch up for the season, I shall be Once Upon a Timing for several days in a row. All necessary components, including myself, willing. So, further catching up, let me just get right out in the open right now that I adore the word “wicked”. It has a lovely, specific…

I feel remiss in having left Sofía Vergara off my ‘actresses who didn’t make my list’ list.  And here’s why – If you have not seen Madea Goes to Jail, then you have not seen Sofía as T.T. Until I saw it myself, I never could have imagined it. It is glorious.

This is quite possibly my favorite version of a Christmas standard of all time. It probably helps that it’s one of my favorite Christmas songs anyway. But I love this arrangement. I love the music. Mostly though, I love the way that the song builds in intensity and from the last verse to the last…

– OR – If Emma and Regina Aren’t Endgame, I Don’t Know What the Once Staff is Writing – OR – I Ship These Ladies So Hard, Packing Peanuts Fear Me Well, it’s the end of another season of Once Upon a Time, and, once again, the season finale saw the forces of good and evil…