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Bruce: “The Batman wasn’t needed anymore…” Gordon: “…The Batman has to come back.” Bruce: “What if he doesn’t exist anymore?”   Superhero movies had a shaky and lame start. 1966 […]

“I love you…but you don’t know what you’re talking about.” -A favorite line that our family frequently uses   Why is it, as I think back on Middle School (or […]

“And there came a day, a day unlike any other, when Earth’s mightiest heroes and heroines found themselves united against a common threat. On that day, the Avengers were born—to […]

“Elementary, my dear Watson.” -Sherlock Holmes?? Of Arthur Conan Doyle’s four novels and 56 short stories featuring the brilliant Sherlock Holmes, this line was actually never uttered. A few lines […]

“Highly imaginative fiction, such as I write, demands the retention of a youthful and elastic mind.” -Edgar Rice Burroughs As a kid visiting the relatives on my mother’s side that […]

“Good morning, Mr. Phelps…” The above quote began one of TV’s best series that premiered way back in 1966, always followed by a fuse being lit – with tantalizing scenes […]

Before opening presents at Christmas with our older children, I asked everyone to name one of the best presents they received as a youngster.