Dita Parker

Sunday, August 23, 2020

Catherine the Great

Catherine Bell, Catherine Deneuve, Catherine Keener, Catherine McCormack, Catherine O’Hara, Catherine Taber, Catherine Tate, Catherine Tresa, Catherine Walker and Catherine Zeta-Jones walk into a bar.

Kate Beckinsale, Kate Bosworth, Kate Fleetwood, Kate Hudson, Kate Mara, Kate McKinnon, Kate Walsh and Kate Winslet get a whiff and decide to join the greats.

Cate Blanchett beats them to it.

So, who’s your all-time favorite Catherine or Kate?

Saturday, August 22, 2020

Chris almighty

Chris Chalk, Chris Cooper, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Chris Jackson, Chris McNally, Chris Noth, Chris O’Donnell, Chris Pine, Chris Pratt, Chris Rock, Chris Sarandon, Chris Tucker, Chris Wood and Chris Zylka walk into a bar.

You wouldn’t happen to know where that is?

So, who’s your all-time favorite Chris?

Friday, August 21, 2020

Tom Cruise? He would just make it awkward.

Tom Baker, Tom Bateman, Tom Ellis, Tom Hanks, Tom Hardy, Tom Hiddleston, Tom Holland, Tom Hopper, Tom Hughes, Tom Mison, Tom Welling and Tom Wilkinson walk into a bar.

You wouldn’t happen to know where that is?

So, who’s your all-time favorite Tom?

Sunday, August 9, 2020

Failure to launch

Temperature: 25/77 degrees

Eating: the cherries and redcurrants are large, plentiful and tasty this year.

Drinking: lemonade

Watching: my firstborn grappling with the fact that nothing has gone, or will go, to plan this year. And this, as soon as it comes out. I’ll wear a hazmat suit if I have to. Happy birthday, Tove Jansson!

Listening: When the wannabe dictators of democracies are forced to comment on or react to their failures or try to assuage fears…why is it always something dumb and dangerous?

Reading: Incessantly, sweetie darlings, and it has been wonderful, a lifesaver, really, now that we’re forced to stay put. Books have taken me around the world and across centuries.

Writing: Not so much, just so I’d have more time to read!

Thinking: about friends and family we didn’t get to see this summer, and no one knows when we will meet again. Heads on a screen…it’s not the same, is it?

Feeling: for my kids; this year has been one of disruptions and disappointments like nothing they’ve experienced before, and there’s nothing I or their father can do about it. Everyone is feeling it, but that’s of little consolation when you’re young and raring to go.