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Friends are like the one ingredient without which a recipe would be barely edible. My birthday drew back the curtain to show my life is rich in laughs, memories, and the best friends a woman could have! Thanks, friends (120+ of you who sent birthday wishes, love, encouragements), for helping make my day stellar!
This may go down as a “stellar” Christmas for me. Story guru John Truby points out in his examination of The Interview Game that memoir/true story has been a hot genre in recent years. In the two days of Christmas 2014, I had the extreme good fortune to see three stellar films: Interstellar and two great memoir/true story films.
Christmas Eve I saw Wild based on Cheryl Strayed’s bestselling memoir. Christmas afternoon I saw The Imitation Game. While Alan Turing solves the puzzle of Enigma during World War II, Cheryl walks through her puzzling recent past experience on the Pacific Coast Trail.
Is your life puzzling? Try walking it out on paper. Maybe YOU, too, are a stellar bestseller!
Word is that South Dakatoans are being encouraged, “Don’t jerk and drive” during the dangerous driving snowy season. What’s your scariest inclement weather driving story?
What are your favorite Christmas memories? I smile when I remember waking to find Barbie in all her finery, two salads my Mom made each Christmas, the blizzard after Christmas in New York 2010.
