by Mary Carver | Mar 4, 2021 | Faith Life, Finding Truth in Unexpected Places, Truth in TV Shows
Are you watching WandaVision? (No worries if not. This is spoiler-free and gets to the Marvel-not-required point pretty quickly.) I’ve been watching WandaVision every Friday since the show premiered. My first and strongest reaction for several...
by Mary Carver | Aug 4, 2020 | Faith Life, Finding Truth in Unexpected Places, Truth in TV Shows
For weeks my oldest daughter asked me to find out where she could watch Full House. She’d seen the reboot series (Fuller House) at my parents’ house and was itching to watch the original show. I remembered it fondly from my childhood and figured it would be a fun...
by Mary Carver | Oct 21, 2019 | Finding Truth in Unexpected Places, marriage
Last week was the 25th anniversary of my first date with my husband. Way back in 1994, we went to our homecoming dance together. And then we lived happily ever after. Um, well, kind of. We’ve been married 20 years, we have two daughters, and when we ended a...
by Mary Carver | Aug 14, 2019 | Faith Life, Finding Truth in Unexpected Places
If there’s one question that will start a firestorm of opinion and emotion, it is… What’s the worst TV show finale you’ve ever seen? One of my good friends will take every opportunity to express her great disgust for the ending of White Collar....
by Mary Carver | Aug 11, 2019 | Finding Truth in Unexpected Places, friendship, Movie Moments
A few weeks ago, my husband and I saw a movie called Yesterday. It’s about Jack, a struggling musician who’s hit by a bus during a worldwide power outage. When he wakes up, the world is going on like normal, but he quickly realizes things aren’t quite the same as...
by Mary Carver | Jul 17, 2019 | Finding Truth in Unexpected Places, Movie Moments
Since last summer I’ve been showing my girls some of my favorite childhood movies. They’ve loved Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Parent Trap, and Flight of the Navigator — but they did not see the appeal of The Princess Bride. Weirdos. (Or, FINE, as we say...
