Joyfully Retired

After several months of (in my opinion) mediocre movies at the theater, we finally got two great ones in one week. It’s okay, I’m not really complaining. I felt like having a popcorn week anyway. Both of these two movies are big-screen worthy. If you can only pick one for the big screen, I recommend [...]

I love the previous three Bourne movies. We (my husband and I) own the DVDs and like to watch them occasionally. We’ve been excitedly waiting to see what the new Bourne franchise would be like. We worried. Could the new group produce an equally good movie? Our biggest concern was whether this new movie could [...]

It’s been months since we went to the movies. There has been nothing new that we wanted to see. I was willing to watch just a so-so movie just for the fun of watching the big screen. And then a movie came to town last week that was absolutely a first-rate film. I didn’t know [...]

Summary: Stephanie Plum is desperate for money – she’s behind on her rent and her car is about to be repossessed. She visits her cousin Vinnie’s bail bond office to check out a job as a file clerk. Instead she hears about some quick money to be make as a bounty hunter. The big money [...]

Lunch and a Matinee is Joyfully Retired’s version of dinner and a movie. I love going to the movies in the middle of the day, in the middle of the week. It was something I wanted to do back in the days when I worked all those long hours. Lunch: While visiting with the granddaughter [...]

Have you ever wondered about the people who staff political campaigns? Do you go back and forth between thinking they’re all phony con men or idealistic do-gooders? I do, but I know, as in all groups of people, there are wide variations. The Ides Of March gives a good look at some of the people [...]

When I read the last page of this wonderful book I sat for a very long time. Just sitting and thinking about the people in the book and those frightening years. It stayed with me for weeks. I saw the movie last Wednesday and, at the end, I also just sat there for a long [...]

Going to the movies in the middle of a weekday is one of our favorite treats since we retired. We sit in a mostly empty theater and think about all those years we were working at this time of day. The last four weeks I’ve been “off.” First it was very hot and then I [...]

A few weeks ago, I confessed to Chaucerian Girl, one of my fellow Quirky Girls, that I did not like Shakespeare. It’s a carry-over from my high school days when we were forced to read and analyze Shakespeare’s works to death. I have avoided them ever since. But Chaucerian Girl suggested I might give them [...]