The Class of 2015

Over the past few weeks, my Facebook feed has been full of back to school photos. Kids starting 1st grade, 7th grade and even a college freshmen. I drive through the streets of DC where at  GW and Georgetown I’m greeted with “Welcome Back Students” signs. It’s an annual rite of passage for parents and kids alike.  An event I haven’t participated in since Fall of 1994.  But this year, I came across a post that gave me pause: a reminder that there’s not only a new generation of back to schooler’s,  but a whole new mindset. A few of my favorite’s from the  full list: O.J. Simpson has always been looking for the killers of Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman. Women have never been too old to have children. Ferris...

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Is “The” Making a Comeback?

Lately I’ve noticed that “the” is all over entertainment. In a world of high creative-types, I’m bewildered on the blandness of the “The” statement. It’s a cop out for being original in the hopes that the latest “The” will be the next daytime hit (aka The View)  or in the case of movies, an Oscar nod (aka: The GodFather, The Graduate,  The Exorcist, The Insider). Yet, there’s something about the most recent boom of “The’s” that doesn’t ring in my ear, success. The Five The Chew The Talk The Help The Revolution After all, once upon a time there was a little web project, named, The Facebook. Makes me wonder if dropping “the” helped it’s cause to become a worldwid

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Life Lessons Learned from Buffy

One hundred episodes, seven seasons, 43 minutes an episode adds up to one year of Buffy watching.  This weekend, I came to the end of  my Buffy adventures, and said good-bye to Buffy, Zander, Willow, Giles and  ex-villain, turned-good vampire, Spike. As the world waited to discover if a crazy dude in California’s predictions of the world ending were going to come true, I curled up in my big chair and half and escaped to Sunnydale where Buffy and team were on their own mission to save the world from the apocalypse. In case you haven’t seen the series, I won’t tell you if they save the world or not,  but I will share a few life lessons I learned during my journey through the mystical world of superheroes, demons and vampires. 1. Good always...

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Risk, Love, Rejection & Vampires

I’ve been thinking a lot about  risk, love and rejection.  After all, there may be a reason that I’m still single:  I’m terrified to “put myself out there.” I never really knew what “putting yourself out there”  meant, however, recently I’ve decided to define it as:  finding someone you like or could like and telling them, or better yet, showing them your true feelings and interest. Simply, I suck at this. Instead, I retreat, appear aloof and pray that he’ll figure it out on his own that I do like them. All this, so I can avoid rejection.  With age;  however, I realize that the fear of rejection may render you alone with an ageing cat and a TiVo remote. Yes, folks I’m pointing the finger at me....

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The Academy of Amy, Presents Top Films

It’s Oscar night, and it’s got me thinking about those films that I never tire of and never fail to plant me into the depths of my sofa as a Saturday reserved for errands eludes me in favor of faraway places and unforgettable characters. So today, The Academy of Amy, presents my Top 10 nominees for Best Picture. 10. Sixteen Candles. Maybe not an Oscar-worthy movie, but this movie is a Gen X classic. Of course, I blame this movie for planting the seed that all your dreams come true at the naive age of 16, and that the most popular, best-looking guy in school would whisk me away in his red Porsche. Yep, this did not happen and all expectations went south from that point forward. 9. The Queen. A sucker for British royalty, I love this portrayal of...

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