Author: mymytoystore

22 years later, the day feels like it happened yesterday. Up until a few years ago, though, my body was still processing parts of the experience like it was today, assessing threats and poised to get me to safety when danger struck.

When he was 2¹/₂, my wife and I enrolled our son Michael in a once-a-week Mandarin language class. Every Sunday, I sacrificed watching a NFL game to drive 30 minutes

The Witcher, Season 1, Ep. 5 – Bottled Appetites & Ep. 6 – Rare Species The romance seemed rushed. But then we find out Yen and Geralt have a longer

1999 [2 Disc Deluxe Ed.] – Prince My God, this is an amazing album. At the time it first dropped, nearly 4 decade ago, we digested music mostly through the

The big difference between the COVID-19 threat and any viral threat depicted on-screen has to do with the stakes. In movies and TV shows, the threat has to be immediate

I am learning a truth about being human– being social is an activity. And yet before this pandemic, far too much of my time was spent in ‘passivity’. Watch something,

Four decades ago, the sequel to Star Wars arrived in theaters. We had no idea how the story would continue after the destruction of the Death Star. This chapter of

We know that movies are a dramatized, condensed, simplified and often hollowed-out version of our experienced or imagined reality. The dramatic arts use a toolbox of devices to translate experiences