All She Wrote

• Oscars 2023: Donkeys, Sea Beasts, Shipwrecks, and Trees
• Oscars 2022: Standing on Ceremony at the Finish Line
• Oscars 2022: The Envelope, Please
• Oscars 2022: Picks and Predictions From Someone Who’s Seen It All
• Oscar vs. Tony: A Race of Show Vehicles
• Counting down to Oscars 2022 … tick … tick … BOOYAH!
• Oscars 2022: The Thrill of Discovery
• Oscars 2022: Cartoons That Are Sick, Sick, Sick
• Oscars 2022: Lead Me to the Movies, My Second Home
• 46 Years On, ‘Dog Day Afternoon’ Is Still Having Its Day
• Oscars 2022: The Prisoner Princess
• Oscars 2016: On gender diversity
• Oscars 2016: I coulda been a contender
• Oscars 2016: In the home-alone stretch
• Winnowing the Oscars 2016 field via social media
• On Oscar diversity: The Big Shortcoming
• Oscars 2016: Best actor slam-dunk
• Oscars 2016: Leo’s growing pains
• Oscar-nominated foreign films: The chosen one
• Are those animated shorts or are you just happy to see me?
• Oscar marathoners: We are not alone
• ‘The Revenant’ should be revered
• Adapted screenplay: Make room for ‘Room’
• Movie memes: Cross-pollination of mainstream flicks
• My 2016 Oscar Rustle-Hustle
• Marketing minions
• Hey, you, Apple: I’m getting off-a your cloud
• On ‘free-range’ parenting and government outta line
• One with the universe
• A lesser birder’s first hard-core birding trip
• Going through hoops: 9 alternatives to March Madness
• Oscar picks: Picking the lint outta my brain
• Oscar picks: Writing
• Oscars 2014: A film odyssey
• Oscars 2014 picks: Best Director
• Oscar marathoners: We are not alone
• Oscar picks: Animated Shorts
• Oscar picks: Supporting Roles
• Oscar picks: Best Actor
• Oscar picks: Best Picture
• Oscars picks: Makeup and Hairstyling
• Oscar picks: Best Actress
• Oscar picks: Cinematography
• Quiet on the set! for ‘All Is Lost’
• When an actor’s true character is revealed
• Oscar picks: Documentaries
• Saving Mr. Hanks
• Doing the Oscar ‘Hustle’
• A married woman by any other name …
• 5 ways poetry doth rock
• Pre-Oscar potty: A photo dump of area facilities
• That’s what s/he said
• Pick a pecking order: How birds and politics mix
• Defeated by the war on poverty
• Birds in popular culture: Flicks, ’toons and tunes
• In search of The Word Detective
• Bird was not always the word
• 5 out-of-fashion terms that somehow still fit
• The lady or the tiger? Still wrestling with restroom doors
• A mother’s undying devotion
• Locker rooms’ loo-HOO-ser ‘don’t ask don’t tell’ code
• Living in an age of telepathy
• 5 ways modern technology steals our humanity
• Donde esta el bano, por favor?
• A bad week in April
• American Idol’s Lazzzzzzzaro Zzzzzzzzzzzz
• Sticking it to the car inspector
• Somewhere deep in Fairfax County, Va.
• The Daily Urinal Journal: Who knew?
• Lincoln’s LinkedIn profile
• Argo’s oops
• Do the Oscars need a new category?
• Taking a long shot at Oscar’s short bets
• Oscars picks from a patron in a leading supporting role
• Oscar’s snub of ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ resurrected
• Weighing the merits of Oscar-movie bingeing
• Water under the Red Carpet
• Someone should make an app for Oscar marathoners
• Oscar movie date night: Double-dip features
• If a tree falls in the forest …
• 38 Oscar movie contenders: How many have you seen?
• Rape, tra-la-la, a chorus of make-believers of them
• Light reading: Why my new Kindle lights my fire
• Dated dating songs: A sex education playlist
• Where is ‘Sandy’ on the list of most popular baby names?
• Rape is no rite
• Birding is a bit like hitting the lottery
• I should get out more
• There is an afterlife, after all
• We each carry the burden of sexual abuse calamities
• A ‘salute’ to women’s power over men?
• Home, James (A short story)
• Decoding the political color scheme (or conspiracy?!!)
• Divided nation? I’ve got this.
• Sticker shock: Block the vote vs. rock the vote
• Best story yet of hope and change (metamorphosis)
• Fellow women, represent: Make the pro-voting choice
• No power? More power to ‘The New York Times’
• Sandy and the Dangling Crane
• Big news at USA TODAY: Sandy swiped our ‘A’
• A ‘Sandy’ foot in my mouth
• On fear of ‘Frankenstorm’ and water pressure
• ‘Women and children first’ is so 1912
• When did Halloween get so sexy?
• Why do we wave? Is it about surrender?
• Lance Armstrong’s slap on the wristbands
• ‘Needless to say’ … but I’ll say it, anyway
• 50 Shades of Rage and Gray
• My turn to be probed by aliens
• Voicing an objection to ‘The Voice’ and other voyeuristic stuff
• 5 things I seriously wish someone would invent
• Fashioning AP style: You read it here first
• Super PAC-hyderms: Advertising’s political heavyweights
• Adult Education: A remedial course
• Circle of life: Hawk preys on fallen starling
• Bye-bye, blackbird profiling
• Not your father’s Search Engine Optimization
• Splendor in the grass: The 5-Second Mile-High Club
• Signs from God at the Reason Rally
• Proof of passion at Reason Rally in D.C.
• Woody or wouldn’t he? Only Mel Blanc knows for sure
• Just ducky: A bird bracket buster
• Those baffling squirrels
• Torn between two hovers
• Stateliness vs. subterfuge: A slam-dunk
• Northern cardinal vs. Downy woodpecker? Madness!
• Not your average flock of birds
• Black-capped chickadee vs. Dark-eyed junco: I’ll take the underbird, with the pretty underbelly
• Dick’s jolliest holiday
• Tweet THIS: March madness for bird brains
• My quick-and-dirty Oscar picks (OK, not that quick)
• Oscar shorts: Like a box of chocolates
• Bummer for Christopher Plummer?
• Life gets in the way of movies
• Moonlighting at the movies
• The magic of mushrooms: Wouldn’t eat that if I were you
• Fairfax’s fresh, hot watering hole: Hacienda El Paso
• Dig at Steve Jobs turns to tribute in ‘The Way’
• ‘Improper borrowing’? Call it what it is: Plagiarism
• Polka is not for weenies
• Human-side economics: Fairness at play
• Scotch Tape, Post-its and the stickiest problem yet
• Fill my teacup list (A mini-bucket list for October)
• What it’s really like to audition for ‘American Idol’
• Goodbye, Mr. Chipmunk: Pick the best rodent flick
• A telling ‘Souvenir’
• Signature Theatre’s ‘Boy Detective’ doesn’t fail and ‘The Hollow’ isn’t sleepy
• Flash fiction in fewer than 140 characters
• A newfound flash-fiction addiction
• 6 of the most inspirational books you’ve never heard of
• Why we laugh at losers: Dissecting Louis C.K.
• Is there life beyond Facebook?
• What IS Anonymous’ beef with Facebook?
• Like Facebook sheep to the slaughter (LIKE!)
• Kazaxe: High-impact clubbing
• 9 signs (and co-signs) of our times
• Carl Sagan, reincarnated to the billionth power
• Rethink Impossible: A wake-up call
• This bug says: We don’t need no stinkin’ borders!
• Did you hear the one about the blind editor?
• 5 Things Newspapers Are Still Good For
• The Economy of Words