Just A Peck 0036 // Blizzard, Pie Day, Little Shop
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- Journal
- What I Watched This Week
- What I Read This Week
- Memories
- Quick Links
- What I'm Excited About
- My Favorite Quote of the Week
JOURNAL
We’ve been dealing with winter weather this week. A blizzard Thursday night dumped a significant amount of snow on us. Streets in the city are a mess and school was cancelled, but it was pretty!
Jody, Jason, and I love to talk movies. We ran a film series together for years, and regularly get together to watch and discuss movies. Jody, who has been the programmer at our local indie cinema for several years, decided last week to leave his job. We’ll miss his programming and our movie nights, but it seems like the right decision for him in this season of his life. (We got together at Wild State because Jody hadn’t tried the new Wrecktangle Pizza there.)
It was Pie Day this week! (3/14) We traditionally celebrate with a slice of pie, so this year we picked up Rustic Inn slices at Whole Foods.
On Saturday, we got to see Little Shop of Horrors at the Playhouse. So many talented people involved in this production! I’m incredibly proud of our local theater artists.
Things often feel overwhelming these days, but it’s helpful for me to see the sunrise each morning and reflect on how lucky I am to be a tiny piece of the universe that gets to sit up and look around in wonder. I hope you find opportunities to do the same.
WHAT I WATCHED THIS WEEK
WHAT I READ THIS WEEK
In Progress:
- My Ántonia, Cather
- Middlemarch, Eliot
- Hollywood: The Oral History, Bassinger, Wasson
MEMORIES
Ten Years Ago:
We were watching Kaylee shine in the Playhouse Youth Theatre production of Fame Jr.
Twenty Years Ago:
We were watching Corey’s middle school Destination Imagination team improvise a skit and craft cardboard props and set pieces in their regional competition.
QUICK LINKS
- Taylor Mazer's incredible pen and ink drawings
- The forgotten movies of the 2026 Oscar season
- Eleven Agnes Varda films you've probably never seen
- What's your Just Noticeable Difference (JND) in color perception?
- 25 beautiful medieval manuscripts you can see online
- Library of short stories
- The 2026 Tournament of Books
- Art Bits from HyperCard
- Obligatory funeral pancakes
WHAT I'M EXCITED ABOUT
My awesome friends Beth and Dana are opening a show next week at County Seat!
My friend John is directing a Will Eno play at CSS!
MY FAVORITE QUOTE OF THE WEEK
“All great human deeds both consume and transform their doers. Consider an athlete, or a scientist, or an artist, or an independent business creator. In the service of their goals they lay down time and energy and many other choices and pleasures; in return, they become most truly themselves. A false destiny may be spotted by the fact that it consumes without transforming, without giving back the enlarged self.”
-- Lois McMaster Bujold
That’s it for this week. Stay safe, friends. Thanks for reading!