Between my confession of workaholism and my lack of true time management skills, I have to consider whether I am still an aspiring writer. I know the quote that says there is no such thing as an aspiring writer. Writers write. Therefore, there are no aspiring writers, just those who write or don’t write. When …
Month: December 2019
Rose Red, like a number of the movies in my rewatch queue, has its flaws. I love it despite of those sometimes. However, as much as I love the ensemble cast, there are certain characters I just don’t like. Annie is chief among them. The autistic savant, Annie, who is the seeming catalyst for the …
I have nothing that resembles a work/life balance, probably announced by the fact that I’m blogging on Christmas instead of hanging out with my family. I did that earlier, at least for a little while. However, in my daily life, non-holiday days, I generally work from the time I get up until about ten minutes …
For those of you who don’t know, I rewatch a lot of the same movies over and over again. Rose Red is one of those movies I watch fairly consistently. Yes, I realize it is actually a made for TV movie which is about five hours long. I enjoy it; therefore, I keep rewatching it. …
I was rewatching “Rose Red” the TV movie last night when I was struck by the mother figure. She seems almost inconsequential, almost a throw away character to give you someone standing between Rachel and her father, but there is more to it. First, she’s the first to notice what Annie has done to the …