Reggie The Egyptian Rescue Dog: The Final Cut: Hurt Yet Again But I Am Tough: Chapter Eight

OK so Anthony and Susan have left me and I am now with Fay and Bob. Will I ever see them again? I felt safe with them and feeling safe is important for a dog and equally so for humans. I am not frightened because I have Fay and Bob by my side and IContinue reading “Reggie The Egyptian Rescue Dog: The Final Cut: Hurt Yet Again But I Am Tough: Chapter Eight”

RKS 2024 Film: “There is a Monster”:  I Have Seen This Monster

Jack Terry (Joey Collins) is a successful commercial photographer. He is on the verge of an enormously successful series of shoots. Everything is going his way except his relationship with his wife Carol (Ena O’Rourke) which hit the skids after a brief drunken fling with a model he was photographing. Jack frequently sees a monsterContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “There is a Monster”:  I Have Seen This Monster”

Reggie the Egyptian Rescue Dog: Please Please Not Again!

My life with foster parents Anthony and Susan is so good. I am protected, loved, well taken care of and oh how I love that cold and clean water in my bowl they refill several times a day. And I happily receive a chunk of what they call a “bagel” or “English muffin” every morning.Continue reading “Reggie the Egyptian Rescue Dog: Please Please Not Again!”

RKS Literature: Love or Madness? (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

“He was not so much in love with Gloria as mad for her. Unless he could have her near to him again, kiss her, hold her close and acquiescent, he wanted nothing more from life. By her three minutes of utter unwavering indifference the girl had lifter herself from a high but somewhat casual positionContinue reading “RKS Literature: Love or Madness? (F. Scott Fitzgerald)”

RKS 2024 Film: “Tōtem”: The Wrenching Realization of Death and Life on its Flip Side

Sol (Naima Sentíes) is a nineish year-old Mexican girl. Her artistic father Ton is terminally ill and death hovers. His family decides to celebrate his birthday with a large party. Sol arrives at her aunt’s house early for the party. Ton’s husband Nuria has taken to drinking heavily unable to process the impending death ofContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Tōtem”: The Wrenching Realization of Death and Life on its Flip Side”

Travels to a Different Time: Travels of My Mother: ?February1971: Palma de Mallorca, Spain and Amsterdam, Holland

Dear Boys; It’s Sunday and I have no doubt in the world. The church chimes started at 7 a.m. and rang every 15 minutes. They seemed to be saying AND DON’T YOU FORGET IT! Please do not throw out this envelope. I expect to be here for two weeks. Please write me TONIGHT and beContinue reading “Travels to a Different Time: Travels of My Mother: ?February1971: Palma de Mallorca, Spain and Amsterdam, Holland”

RKS Literature: The Growth of Intimacy (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

“The growth of intimacy is like that. First one gives off his best picture, the bright and finished product mended with bluff and falsehood and humour. Then more details are required and one paints a second portrait, and a third-before long the best lines cancel out- and the secret is exposed at last; the planesContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Growth of Intimacy (F. Scott Fitzgerald)”

RKS Literature: That Faintly Odorous Atmosphere of the Cave and the Nursery (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

“Almost impersonally he was convinced that no woman he had ever met compared in any way with Gloria. She was deeply herself; she was immeasurably sincere-of these things he was certain. Besides her the two dozen schoolgirls and debutantes, young married woman and waifs and strays whom he had known were so many females, inContinue reading “RKS Literature: That Faintly Odorous Atmosphere of the Cave and the Nursery (F. Scott Fitzgerald)”

RKS 2024 Film: “Some Other Woman”: The Women are not the Problem Here! Who is Taking Over Whom?

With the camera on a Caribbean Island a female narration sets forth a legend of the island with a backdrop of two women in a life and death struggle in the water. The island legend is of a fisherman is on his boat with his beautiful pregnant wife and encounters a storm which tosses hisContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Some Other Woman”: The Women are not the Problem Here! Who is Taking Over Whom?”

Travels to a Different Time: Travels of My Mother: 4February1971: Palma de Mallorca, Spain: A $1 Lunch of Steak, Mushrooms, Spinach, Half a Bottle of Wine and Coffee

Dear Boys: Don’t throw envelopes out as I want to save the stamps. I am sitting in the sun and is 85 degrees. I wish I brought some lighter clothes. I have had such a nice time-today I visited the castle bult in 1300. I walked to it and it was a long one. IContinue reading “Travels to a Different Time: Travels of My Mother: 4February1971: Palma de Mallorca, Spain: A $1 Lunch of Steak, Mushrooms, Spinach, Half a Bottle of Wine and Coffee”