Today marks the first day of the Blogging from A to Z Challenge. The challenge begins with A on April 1 and continues the alphabet throughout the month, except on Sundays. My theme for the month will be this blog’s tagline: life, books, and all things bookish. So you can expect a little bit of …
It was the first week of January, that time of new beginnings and fresh starts, when each year I look at the blank pages of a crisp new planner and think of all that I could fill it with: travels to far away places, appointments to beautify the winter-drab, trips to the gym to sculpt and …
It finally happened. I am almost old. Almost … My mom, who just celebrated the big Eight-O this fall, tells me, “You’re finally catching up to me!” And I say (patiently, mind you), “No, Mom–I’ll never catch up to you. You will always be twenty-two years older than me …” “Well,” she says, “It just makes me …
This time of year I daydream about an idyllic Christmas shopping experience that is a far-stretch from mall shopping: pretty store fronts, quaint little shops, lighted trees, carols in floating on the breeze. Throw in a few fluffy snowflakes and I’ve got a perfect evening, something a little Norman Rockwell with a dash of Chicago boutique. Yesterday …
Great interview with J. Ryan Stradal from NPR’s Here and Now–hear the author of Kitchens Of the Great Midwest. (He loves ambrosia salad and cookie bars, by the way!) Interviewer Robin Young says the novel is like “Prairie Home Companion with recipes”. Next up, listen to Stradal read an excerpt on The Dinner Party Download here.
Blueberry season is over now, but I managed to squeeze in a little last minute blueberry picking a couple weeks ago. And good sport that he is, hubby agreed to come with so that we could make shorter work of those end-of-the-season slim pickings. I say good sport because we were both required to pick …
Lawyer For the Dog Lee Robinson Thomas Dunne Books This was probably one of those times when I did choose a book by its cover. Take a look—how can you resist that little guy’s face?! (My first dog was a schnauzer, so that didn’t hurt either!) Lee Robinson’s Lawyer For the Dog is pretty simple …
I’m new to this grandma gig—only seven months into it, to be exact. And while I was once a stay-at-home-mom who raised three kids (pretty successfully, most people would say), the new littles in my life (J, seven months, and L, 5 months) made me wonder whether or not I still had my mojo. I’m watching …
April is National Poetry Month, and seeing how we’ve only three days left, posting about poetry is either now or never! Although I was an English major and always bookish, poetry was quite another thing. In short, I just didn’t like it. A fantastic poetry prof in college helped open my mind a bit, but …
Several years ago, my husband converted me to Google calendar (which I still love, by the way, for our shared family planner), and when that happened, I gave up my circa 1998 black leather Day Runner without looking back. All that time spent transferring phone numbers and birthdays every January—who needed it? Not me! I was …
This is my symphony 