The best thing that I can say about The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is that somewhere bubbling underneath its cinematic surface, there's a film with an abundance of heart and humanity trying to run, dash, and jump its way into our lives. Unfortunately, co-directors Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic seem content to ride the waves of nostalgia instead of aiming for anything truly meaningful.
Book Review of the Week: The Place Between Our Pains by K.J. Ramsey
I couldn't help but reach out to author K.J. Ramsey as I began her latest book, "The Place Between Our Pains: A Memoir of What Joy Can Survive."
I had to tell her that this would be my latest "hospital" book, my latest book to be read while enduring yet another hospitalization during my sixty-year long journey with Spina Bifida. This journey, to be honest, was rather simple. Months in the planning, this was to be an overnight stay to remove yet another kidney stone to be followed by a week of recovery.
