It’s the spooky season in the Watson Johnson house, and we
are eating up all of our favorites, which include (but are not limited to) Hocus Pocus, Ghostbusters, Halloweentown, E.T., Hotel Transylvania, The Munsters, The Addams
Family, and (finally, for the first time) Scream.
As such, my apologies for the Christmas spreadsheet being
late- my brain isn’t in Christmas mode yet. (Although, allow me to assure you
that the moment we hit November 1, the Christmas playlist will be on and I will
gladly consume any movie that includes “mistletoe” in the title.)
Anyway, anyway….
I don't talk about politics on the blog even though, as my therapist says, it's my jam. As the wonky nerd that I am though I will talk until my final breath about how important it is for you to vote. Vote 411 is a great resource to learn more about your ballot choices before you vote.
The Bible Binge: Faith Adjacent
Purity Culture
I adore this spinoff from my beloved Bible Binge podcast, in
which Erin Moon searches for biblical “reception in unlikely places.” I
mentioned a couple of blog posts ago, I have been really pondering my own
experience with purity culture. This podcast spoke to so many experiences of my
youth, holding them up to the light without making fun of them, just searching
for truth and meaning- all of it engrossing, in my opinion.
The SSR Podcast
Episode 117: Meet Kirsten
SSR is one of my most favorite ever podcasts, in which Alli
Hoff Kosik and a guest read young adult literature (normally from their own
youth) and reexamine it in light of adult minds and perspectives. I was excited
for this episode with Kate Kennedy from the Be There In Five podcast (I truly
love Be There in Five but-important caveat- Kate’s episodes are so long, often
two hours, I have to really prepare myself to pay attention for that long to
just Kate alone talking- I’m sure that says something about my attention span).
I was just honestly jazzed because this was an American Girl
book. My Samantha doll remains to this day my favorite gift ever, and I own all
of the Kirsten books, so I was familiar with her story. Alli and Kate dig deep
into American Girl and its origins and subsequent buyout by Mattel. It’s all fascinating in the best way.
Open Book by Jessica Simpson
I’m only halfway through listening to this on Audible and I’m
loving it so much I have to gush about it on here. I watched Nick and Jessica’s
television show and always felt such affinity for Nick-he was closer to my age,
and it always seemed that he was the mature one. Listening to Jessica’s story
is captivating. She doesn’t deny at all her mistakes, but it is so fascinating
to understand where she was coming from, what her life was like leading up to
her stardom, how much making a reality show truly changed the course of her
life. I’m forever and always interested in other people’s lives (which is why
memoirs are my thing), and of course throw in divorce and I will devour it.
We are heading into the darkest days, and in this crazy year everything feels anxious around the edges. I'm holding onto this time with my girls full of movies and books and nights in and trying to learn the dance to BTS' "Dynamite." Which is harder than it looks.
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