Valsroad Movie Reviews

Since we are spending more time at home in the evenings, we’ve been watching more movies than usual. I thought I’d rate four of the recent ones we’ve seen and give a plug to an upcoming one. My Spy – (PG-13) Amazon Prime. This movie puts Dave Bautista (JJ) and Chloe Coleman (Sophie) together in an action star meets precocious cute kid... read more

Valsroad 2021 Book Club Choices

The wonderful women of my book club researched over thirty books, and the top twelve made it onto our 2021 Reading List. I hope you find a few of them interesting enough to add to your own reading list. If you’d like to see all thirty books, let me know by emailing me at val@valsroad.com As always, if you are buying new books, please... read more

Real Life Hauntings

Whenever Halloween rolls around, I’m more attentive to real life hauntings. And like some people I know, I tend to share things in a set of three. When I looked into why we do this, I found there isn’t a scientific reason. It seems we look for patterns in random data. So I share with you my random data. Messages from the Past During a... read more

Who is Fitzpatrick?

I recently read a medical report that identified me as a Fitzpatrick Type 2 Woman. Such an odd label, I had to research what it meant. There’s no hidden message: Fitzpatrick Type is a system that predicts who is at risk of sunburn by categorizing skin according to how much melanin is present. Most of us know that skin with very little... read more

What Do You Miss?

So when Covid first started, we thought that it’d be over in three months. Now that we’ve passed the six-month mark, we’re still wondering how long until we get a vaccine and return to some kind of normal. Lately I’ve been thinking about what I’ve missed the most during this pandemic. Of course, I miss the big things like traveling to... read more