Nancy's Blog

THE IMPOSSIBLE manages to do what I would have indeed thought impossible: Make a tsunami boring. Actually, that's not accurate.  The t...

I know I have posted no new reviews of anything for a while...despite having read and viewed books and movies .  First Christmas, then a bac...

Christmas Eve:  Here is dawn coming up over Eliott Bay, outside my apartment window, with the Christmas tree reflected in the glass.  If I d...

Some movies succeed, at least partially, because of their script; some because of their casting; some from their overall look; some for no r...

In 1926 the future silent-screen actress Louise Brooks, then fifteen and living with her family in Wichita, won a summer scholarship to the ...

ANNA KARENINA is one of my favorite novels. The first time I read it, decades ago, I was amazed at how completely Tolstoy captured a woman...

 I enjoy teaching writing--well, most of the time, anyway.  But no teaching gig has ever been as much fun as teaching aboard the Norwegian S...