Plugged In Blog

Every weekday morning while sipping coffee, doing my hair and/or trying to decide if a shirt needs to be ironed, I watch the news. Well,

We know that entertainment can impact the way we think or feel about certain things. Movies can make us happy or sad or encourage us

Here’s a question I’ve been pondering this week: How do our media habits change as we get older? It’s a question that was spurred by

It sounds like angels are bowling five feet above my head today. OK, it’s actually roofers working on our office building. But the distracting racket

I never really wanted granite countertops before television. I was just dandy with our tile countertops. Have been for years. They support pots and pans.

Have you ever looked back at an historic event that occurred during your childhood and wondered why the years since whiz by at light speed

You’d think the shootout would’ve been a forgone conclusion. Cowboys & Aliens had all the star power, all the firepower and some serious buzz. It

What’s the saddest movie ever? Bambi? Old Yeller? Transformers: Dark of the Moon? Pish. Don’t make the science guy over there in the corner laugh.

I remember the day—many moons back when I was in high school—when the school administration announced that they were going to sanction a certain outdoor

I recently had the pleasure of seeing Winnie the Pooh on the big screen. But even as a Pooh-o-phile, I’ll admit that such a tame,