I’m hanging out with a clutch of other widows. Some of them are widowers: we have not yet got around to a gender-neutral term for those who have lost their life partners. Maybe TWHLTLP will appear shortly, but it hasn’t yet. Some are women who have lost women or men who have l...
(post)to Douyin—the Chinese version of TikTok—show 25-year-old Wan Minghui taking her grandfather to visit Beijing in September,a former wish of him and his wife, (3) who passed away six years ago. The elderly man was interested in many things on his journey,from...
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Open Roads, which experienced some upheaval whenFullBright co-founder Steve Gaynor left the projectafter being accused of fostering a toxic work environment in 2021, doesn’t waste a second of its tight, movie-length runtime. As soon as I start it, I’m introduced to its narrative gameplay ...
who has been making movies in Arkansas for eight years. She has a bachelor’s degree in digital filmmaking and a master’s in film from the University of Central Arkansas. She was Director of Education at Fayetteville Public TV and won a Telly Award for the “Cinematic Rig FPTV Promo” ...
It’s all in the love letters which she and my grandfather wrote to one another. I emphasize the Russian side of our family, but we are also Feingolds, aus Deutschland. People who came from Germany to Sweden and, eventually, America. Rosa, my Mutter, passed away a year and a half ...
The former is the memory of a boy who worked in his grandfather’s blacksmith shop. Some nuns come down the hill from the convent to ask for hand outs. He notices the younger nun and as they look at each other for a moment he finds himself attracted to her. The story is handled ...
“fishing is a sport, and a noble one at that. it’s one of the few sports that can be shared by a father and son, grandfather and grandson, or by friends of all ages.”– jim arnosky nothing can beat that feeling when you’re out with your son, fishing together. fishing is ...
We have learned, along with the grandfather, that little Fenella has grown up a little — enough to be trusted with a precious umbrella, and enough to cope with the tragic death of her mother. She’s going to be okay.
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