Monthly Archives: May 2020

Healing River is Here!

Posted on May 15, 2020 by mitchteemley

A Filmmaker’s Journal Healing River, a feature film I wrote and directed (originally titled Over-the-Rhine) has just premiered on Amazon Prime–and right on time for your weekend Movie Night! (Even if you’re not a Prime member you can watch it … Continue reading →

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A Filmmaker’s Journal

Posted on May 14, 2020 by mitchteemley

It’s Almost Here! My multi-award-winning feature film Healing River (formerly titled Over-the-Rhine) will premiere tomorrow, Friday, May 15, on Amazon Prime! I’ll post the new trailer and a direct link to the movie on Amazon tomorrow. (You can watch or … Continue reading →

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The devils are here

Posted on May 13, 2020 by mitchteemley

My Featured Blogger this week is Benyamin Bensalah of Benyapoesy. Calling himself a “pocket poet” (I’m not sure what that means, but I like it), Benyamin is of Algerian/Hungarian extraction. By his own description he is “a strange production of … Continue reading →

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Do We Keep Time, or Does It Keep Us?

Posted on May 8, 2020 by mitchteemley

“I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked me.” ~Susanna Clarke Time demands too much of our time. It pretends to be indifferent, yet creates chaos when we … Continue reading →

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The 5 Deadliest Creatures

Posted on May 7, 2020 by mitchteemley

First it’s a worldwide pandemic. Now it’s Giant Murder Hornets. Zombies can’t be far behind. Actually, according to the World Health Organization, the five deadliest creatures (to humans) aren’t giant murder hornets, lions and tigers and bears, or even zombies. … Continue reading →

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The pandemic update from Britain: hope, hype, and a tiger running loose

Posted on May 6, 2020 by mitchteemley

My Featured Blogger this week is Ellen Hawley of Notes from the U.K. A New York-born transplant to picturesque Cornwall, England, Ellen is the author of three popular seriocomic novels. The same mix of facts and whimsy shows up in … Continue reading →

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Our Stay-Day-Vaycation

Posted on May 4, 2020 by mitchteemley

A Staycation Photoblog* *I caught a few typos after captioning the photos and uploading them (ahem, “Botatnical” garden?), and have no intention of going back and fixing them. It adds character, right? (Note: All photos except the first were taken … Continue reading →

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A Message From Mother Nature

Posted on May 2, 2020 by mitchteemley

Mother Nature must think humans are incredibly stupid. Otherwise, why would the stuff we put in one end smell so good and the stuff that comes out the other end smell so bad? It’s the world’s oldest “Eat this, not … Continue reading →

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