January 23rd, 20164336 A long time ago, when I was a small child in a small town, my father took me to see Star Wars shortly after it had opened in theaters across the country. As my father likes to tell it, I feel asleep about half way through. So, I don’t remember a lot about that showing or much about any of the showings I went to as a kid. One thing I...
December 2nd, 20150124 Star Wars Jedi Master is the latest offering from Titan Magazines, and it is designed for younglings and padawans -- although this grown woman thoroughly enjoyed herself! Through quizzes, tests of skill, and a variety of puzzles — and advice from Jedi Master Yoda — you grow in the Force as you progress through the magazine toward...
November 18th, 2015175 The saga continues with the all-new Star Wars Jedi Master Magazine! Titan Magazines is pleased to announce the launch of the all-new Star Wars Jedi Master Magazine, a 52 page, full-color magazine! Revisit where the whole saga began with Star Wars Jedi Master Magazine #1, on sale November 17 at all major retailers for only...
November 16th, 2015373Sometimes it can be ... a bit challenging ... to come up with information about a lesser-known Star Wars character to share with you in my march through The ABCs of Star Wars. That leaves the door wide open for me to speculate, of course. You see me doing a lot of that this time around . My musings let my imagination take flight – and...
September 25th, 2015283 Coffee With Kenobi co-host Dan Z has a new installment of his Studying Skywalkers series posted on the official Star Wars blog. In this entry, Dan looks at the themes contained within The Phantom Menace. Read an excerpt below: As we get closer and closer to December 18, 2015, when the next epic chapter in Star Wars lore...
August 21st, 20151225 Throughout most of the Star Wars saga, we see a lineage of Skywalker descent make choices based on compromise, morals, and their life experiences -- in turn, forging a personal perspective or point of view. One’s choices or decisions in life don’t make them right or wrong, per se, rather a sense of righteousness or justification...
June 13th, 20156293As the new Jurassic Park movie thunders into theatres, Dr. Ian Malcolm’s (Jeff Goldblum) chaos theory discussion from the first film comes to mind. It fascinates me that chaos can be defined by something as simple as a droplet of water which rolls down a woman’s hand in different ways depending upon the most miniscule variables on...
May 31st, 20153107Yesterday was Star Wars Day at Miller Park in Milwaukee. The Brewers certainly could have used a Jedi both in the field and in the batting order as they faced Arizona’s Diamondbacks. After the first couple of innings, nothing went the Brew Crew’s way. When the ninth inning’s last out was tallied, the Brewers fell to the...
May 21st, 20156912 Femininity Behind The Moon It’s no secret that the Star Wars saga is intricately laced with symbolism and mythology throughout its entirety. In fact, the amount of its ambiguity is so immense that the conversations continue to grow and flourish up until this very day, some thirty-eight years after it all began. One of the ongoing...
May 15th, 2015058Wish I had a Dusting Droid, I do. Doesn’t that have a nice ring to it – dusting droid? You see, I detest dusting. It is my least favorite task to do around the house. On the surface, it should be one of the easiest, quickest jobs to tackle – but it isn’t. At least not in our house. As my mother would say, we have “a lot of...
