Veronica “Ronnie” Miller serenades her way into readers’ hearts in Nicholas Sparks’ bildungsroman (book about growing up) The Last Song. Rather than spending her summer enjoying New York City, 17 –year- old Miller and her  little brother, Jonah,  visit their father in the small town of Wrightsville Beach, N.C. Miller finds herself consumed with the [...]

What does one do when driving past a homeless person?  Most people avoid eye contact and busy themselves with the radio.  They make up some excuse about not wanting to enable the person to buy drugs or alcohol which makes them feel better about themselves for the time being.  In The Blind Side, a film [...]