The DHX: The Doughtie Houses Exchange

I laughed out loud in the theater when I saw Enchanted’s evil stepmom emerging from the sewer wagging her tongue in and out of her mouth and shooting green lightning bolts from her fingertips. She’s so over the top that she looks like she’s there to poke fun at the Disney stereotype. And based [...]

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Smash Mouth covers Why Can’t We Be Friends

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This is one of my favorite songs, and it feels like a Christmas song, even though it probably isn’t: Ubi caritas - setting by Maurice Durufle
“Ubi caritas et amor, Deus ibi est / Where charity and love are, God is there” (lyrics)
Merry Christmas!

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The Scientist - Coldplay “Come up to meet you, tell you I’m sorry / You don’t know how lovely you are . . . / Nobody said it was easy / No one ever said it would be this hard . . . I’m going back to the start.” This song really touched me when [...]

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Try watching a movie this holiday season that will remind you that living in an eclectic, eccentric, sometimes emotionally messy, all-over-the-place family can be pretty darn funny and beautiful.

My favorite wacky family feel-good movie is Little Miss Sunshine. I own it (in fact, Kathy and the kids gave it to me for my birthday) so [...]

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“It didn’t work out with me an your mom / But yo, push come to shove / You was conceived in love” — Will Smith, “Just the Two of Us” (1997)
Continuing my love affair with Will Smith’s family, I found and loved this song he recorded years ago for his oldest son. Lyrics here.
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