The Movie

It’s on 8 mm film, stretches 100 feet long, and has a run-time of a mere 3 minutes and 55 seconds. The film was played on a Dejur Corporation home movie projector more than 40 times in the 1970s, ’80s, and ’90s at our family gatherings. Operating the projector was my dad, legendary home movie […]

The Swan

It stood about 12 inches high and was about 8 inches wide. It was made of ceramic, colored dark brown and light orange, and hollowed out on the inside. To any sensible person, this hideous “thing” should have been thrown out in the trash and in a landfill. And that’s exactly where I picked it […]