Musing about current events as they relate to dreams, a book, three movies, and a tv series on the topics of aging, work-life balance, survival, mental health and how media shapes society. Please note, this text has some spoilers.

This is a portrait of modern society, painted as a dystopia. What happens when people aren’t happy, and why? Margaret plops a poor couple smack into what is supposedly the happiest decade of American history. Be happy! Fake it til you make it! Charmaine(the Charm) and Stan(the Bland) are perfectly malleable. I have to hand it to Atwood: writing about boring people was likely...

Steve Silberman (Rest in Power) delivers his magnum opus with Neurotribes. Temple Grandin gives us concepts that are finally taking shape many years later with The Autistic Brain. Elizabeth Moon gives us her version of the future. In 2015 I explored the hope that neurodiversity will make an appearance more often when it comes to archetypal characters. Did we achieve that in 2024?

Back in 2015 I tried to review this book and look for more meaning or likability in the main character and failed. As I have aged I realized that likability is hopefully not the intention. Tartt designed the book in what I felt was a series of emotional rifts. It drew me in as a mother. I am curious as to if people who are not parents felt parental...