Feeding Your Soul

Leaves are changing and temperatures are dropping.   Fall is in the air and it is nicely welcomed after a hot and grueling summer.   What is also nicely welcomed are all of the new series and seasons of your favorite and new television shows.   This year is very busy for this entertainment junkie – 17 shows both returning and new are slated for my viewing this year.   Below is the list of returning and new shows that will be watched for the next few months: How I Met Your Mother Revolution NCIS The New Normal Vegas Supernatural Chicago Fire Nashville Last Resort The Big Bang Theory Grey’s Anatomy Glee Made in Jersey Fringe Once Upon a Time Revenge 666 Park Avenue As you can see, my tastes run all over the spectrum.   There are 8 new series that I will be watching and one – The New Normal – has already grabbed my attention and my laughter. In a world where the definition of family is changing – and whethe...

Love stories come in all shapes and sizes. Most of the ones I read are young adult novels. I read them because unlike adult novels, the love stories are pure and innocent. They aren’t looking for anything long term or even 6-months down the road. For the people involved, they are looking for instant gratification – which involves companionship, kissing, conversation something that I find lacks in some adult novels. Tiger’s Quest and Tiger’s Voyage are the middle 2 books of a four-part series focusing on Kelsey Hayes and her sudden pull into a 300-year-old curse to save 2 men from being tiger’s forever. And of course a love triangle that makes everyone’s head spin. Following the events of Tiger’s Curse Kelsey is back in Oregon trying to move on from Ren whom she believes she doesn’t deserve. She comes “home” to her own house, car, money all set up by Mr. Kadam for helping him and the tigers with their curse. He tells her that there is more to come but for now we can lay low. Sh...

Whenever Hollywood makes trilogies, they have to tread very carefully. They want to extend the storyline to the exact point where the audience has gotten just enough and doesn’t need any more closure or information. If it goes past that point, the audience gets laden with too much information and loses interest to keep going back. If it stops short of that point, the audience feels gipped that they wasted all of this time without a significant end to the story. The Pirates of the Caribbean franchise stopped at the right point when it finished “At World’s End.” With “On Stranger Tides” it went way past that point and failed to find it again. In “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” the audience finds Jack Sparrow in quite the predicament. His first mate Gibbs tries to free him from the gallows but alas he is captured and brought before King George who has a new right hand man – Captain Barbosa. The King wants Jack to guide an expedition to locate the Fountain of Yout...