Tag Archives: movies

You’re Unique — So Be Unique

Posted on October 2, 2019 by This Woman Writes

Every human being is unique, different, and distinctive. The imaginary world of movies pretends to celebrate this fact, and maverick protagonists are popular. But their problems aren’t our problems, and their issues are rarely if ever solved in a realistic, … Continue reading →

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How Many Friends Is “Normal”?

Posted on August 23, 2019 by This Woman Writes

When we live too much in the imaginary world of TV, movies, and social media, we start to believe that fantasy is reality. Take friendship, for example. In the land of myths, six to eight young, attractive, witty men and … Continue reading →

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Movies Aren’t Real — But Life Is

Posted on June 10, 2019 by This Woman Writes

Real life doesn’t look like the movies. It looks real and deep and genuine. Continue reading →

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Skip the Trends and Be Yourself

Posted on May 10, 2018 by This Woman Writes

For a nation that considers itself filled with maverick individuals, the U.S.A. is  increasingly a land of followers: we follow the leader, we follow fashions, we follow The Influencers, we follow trends. And in doing so — coolly repeating lines … Continue reading →

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Fomenting Hate Divides Us — and Divided, We Are Weak

Posted on July 9, 2015 by This Woman Writes

“From now on, five in one household will be divided, three against two and two against three.” (Luke 12:52) I was chatting with a Millennial the other day. Millennials, if you haven’t noticed, are popular in corporatized America. This group of people … Continue reading →

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What Brave Looks Like

Posted on March 25, 2015 by This Woman Writes

We live in a world that worships movies. And while many Christians would swear up and down that they worship nothing but God and have no idols, honest people stop and admit that popular mass media affects, generally in a … Continue reading →

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Dogs, Cats, or People — Which Are Smarter?

Posted on December 20, 2014 by This Woman Writes

It’s time to bring to a close the age-old debate about whether dogs or cats — and the people who prefer one to the other — are smarter. Not because the general populace has accepted the final resolution of the issue … Continue reading →

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Dystopian Fantasy

Posted on December 18, 2014 by This Woman Writes

Nowadays, dystopia is the rage. Books like The Hunger Games, Divergent, and The Maze Runner seem written for the sole purpose of being turned into movies, with a concerted effort to engage today’s youth into the idea that life, and the future, are … Continue reading →

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The Grown-Up World of Make Believe

Posted on February 23, 2012 by This Woman Writes

Movies aren’t real. While ostensibly, most grownups agree on this, we frequently don’t act as if we do. It’s not so much that we look over our shoulders for zombies or vampires as that we gaze at our bathroom scales, … Continue reading →

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Zombies, Vampires, Vulcans, and Aliens — They May Be Make Believe, But We See Them Everyday

Posted on October 21, 2011 by This Woman Writes

College Girl and her friends toss everything else aside, including homework, when The Walking Dead comes on, and they sprawl about chomping popcorn while grisly ashen, ratty tatty skinned Frankenstein things lurch on screen, making the same sounds little kids make when they’re playing cars. Continue reading →

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