A Review of "At Home with Heather James" by Quent Cordair

I have just finished reading this short screenplay by Quent Cordair, a writer for whom my respect and sheer enjoyment have grown with every piece of his that I have read.

As a beginning writer of fiction myself,  I know what a difficult job it is to concretize a theme in a coherent plot.  As if that were not enough, Mr. Cordair has chosen a theme which has been treated often by Ayn Rand:  remaining true to  the values one wants in those one chooses as friends and a romantic partner.  Among Miss Rand's works the play "Ideal" and the novel The Fountainhead have clear examples of this theme.

I don't want to spoil the story by revealing the plot of  Mr.Cordair's screenplay. But I will say, as a hint and teaser, that "At Home" is an an apt title both in terms of its content and my reaction.  If you are a lover of life and of stories that reveal life not as it is, but as it should and could be, I believe that this screenplay will meet and exceed every expectation you have.

More, please, Mr. Cordair.  This is glorious food for the soul.

P.S.  Producers should take the hint.

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Man's diet?

It goes by many names, and the differences that give rise to the names lead to arguments over the differences that their advocates claim are important.  But the essentials are very simple: the turning point for most if not all of mankind's physical ills is the diet we are currently taught is the healthiest -- the high-carb diet which includes whole grains, corn, rice,  and beans.  The advocates of this alternative are growing in number and studies are being done at NIH and other research sites. (google any disease followed by the word 'inflamation')

I was introduced to the concept by my short-lived success on the Atkins diet, which I abandoned for the dim-witted excuse that I love rice and cinnomon buns.  Over the years I have, the advocates of this diet tell me, developed three of the major diseases now associated with that diet and its relation to inflamation: Parkinson's Syndrome, cancer, and diabeties along with my obesity. They trace inflamation back to the science involved in eating as we are now told to, and they take the position that just as mankind has a psychological identity that he must use correctly to live, he has a physiological identity that must be obeyed if he is to live optimally.

The nearest set of principles to that requirement that I have found is the so-called Paleo diet.   If its advocates are correct, it should be called the Human diet.  If you are interested, go first to Diana Hsieh's Noodlefood site and click on Modern Paleo.

I have started and I'll let you know the results.