F1 The Movie (2025): What Stayed With Me After Watching It

F1 The Movie (2025): What Stayed With Me After Watching It A personal reflection, not a review It started, as many unexpected things do, with my daughter. We share a YouTube feed — a chaotic blend of her pop music and my own carefully filtered selections to keep things from going stale — and one […]

Can Music Make a Movie?

Can Music Make a Movie? … or Break It? As you may know, I have an alternative site with a section called Inspired by the Score, where I talk briefly about the movie a soundtrack was written for and then dive much more deeply into the music itself. I find music inspiring for my creative processes, […]

Living Liminally, Languishing Literally

Living Liminally, Languishing Literally Liminal — a nineteenth‑century word built from the idea of a threshold. It once belonged mostly to scholars, tucked away in discussions of ritual and psychology. But beginning in the 2010s and accelerating through the 2020s, it entered everyday language. People needed a word for the in‑between: for uncertainty, transition, and […]