Blowing Up—A Perspective on Grief and a Lesson in Compassion
We are constantly being pushed to move on from mishaps and negative feelings. What happens if we're not ready to do so?

As our son, Oyen, is turning 15, navigating both adolescence and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). It feels like we are nurturing a 'superman.’
We are constantly being pushed to move on from mishaps and negative feelings. What happens if we're not ready to do so?
'The Last Black Man in San Francisco' is part fiction, part documentary. Jimmie longs for the old Victorian home that he grew up in — the house that his grandfather built. However, this home is now in an overpriced, White, San Francisco neighborhood.
Dead Poets Society brilliantly combines defeat and optimism, rejection and love, craziness and daring, fear and freedom.
Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion is a fan-favorite, as are some of the more science fiction angled movies like 28 Days Later or World War Z. I recently watched the 1995 Wolfgang Peterson-directed movie, Outbreak for the first time, which is currently available on Netflix.
'The Invisible Man' triumphs in tension even as it drops the ball on genuine surprise for the audience.