The $5 billion Jurassic Park franchise about a theme park featuring cloned dinosaurs originated in the late 1980s when author Michael Crichton began writing first the screenplay and later the book. The rights to the novel were purchased by Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment before the book was even published. The first two films were based on Crichton’s novels, were … [Read more...]
Meet the Press: Sophia Rogers
Sophia Rogers is one of the staff writers for Nonahood News and is also a local realtor. She was born in Chicago and lived in Ft. Lauderdale for elementary and middle school but moved back to Illinois for high school. She then moved to Orlando with her parents her senior year of high school. Rapid Fire Questions: Extrovert or Introvert? Extrovert. Unless you see me in a … [Read more...]
Mama’s Turn: Signs of Middle Age
It is hard to believe, but here it is … another Mama’s Turn column from me. While you might just call this August’s issue, I call it the month I turn 49. To be honest, this birthday is kind of a non-event as I’ve been telling people I was “almost 50” since I was 40. Adding years always elicits a “wow, you look good for your age” response, and I am not against shortening my life … [Read more...]
Family Fridays: Cactus Jack Horseback Riding
Most kids love horses. It’s plain and simple. I can’t recall a time in my childhood when I wasn’t begging my parents to let me get a horse (without any idea of where to put it, how to feed it, or otherwise … but you know how being a little kid goes). Though I was never able to make that dream a reality, I can live vicariously through riding horses once in awhile at some of the … [Read more...]
Travel: Milan
“I went daily to the cathedral of Milan, that singular mountain which was torn out of the rocks of Carrara. I saw the church for the first time in the clear moonlight; dazzlingly white stood the upper part of it in the infinitely blue ether. Round about, wherever I looked, from every corner, upon every little tower with which the building was, as it were, overlaid, projected … [Read more...]
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