Happy Mother’s Day, if you are one or have/had one! Here’s the obligatory photo of my mom and me. It’s hard to believe she’s been gone almost nine years. Rick and I were just talking about how much we miss … Continue reading →
A friend and I attended an author event last night. We were there to see Kelley Armstrong as fans of the Otherworld series for adults. But the event, the Dark Days Tour sponsored in St. Louis by Left Bank Books, … Continue reading →
Happy Cinco de Mayo! It’s finally feeling like spring here. We had a glorious day yesterday and looking forward to another today. Lots of bookish fun on the blog this week: 11 random facts about me for Readers’ Workouts Books … Continue reading →
Happy Sunday! Time: // 8:58 am. The scene: // Sunny! And we’re expecting several quite warm days after a week of mostly grey and cool ones. Listening to: // My Good Morning playlist on Spotify. I added “Let it Go” from Frozen to the end of it … Continue reading →
Beth Fish Reads hosts Weekend Cooking, a weekly blog hop of food posts. In response to my previous posts where I mentioned reading 70 books and losing 70 pounds, some commentors have expressed interest in following a similar path. Here are … Continue reading →
Book: A Poetry Handbook: A Prose Guide to Understanding and Writing Poetry by Mary Oliver Genre: Writing Publisher: A Harvest Original Publication date: 1994 Pages: 130 Source: Library Summary: A gentle teaching text with definitions, structures, and encouragement to read and write … Continue reading →
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic at The Broke and The Bookish: Top Ten Books if you like X, where I get to determine X. So, I’m going with X = British TV. If you like Merlin, I recommend the Merlin … Continue reading →
I had such fun on Saturday with the spring version of Dewey’s Read-a-thon: Introducing myself, my garden, and my new niece-in-law Best of my reading year lists Mid-event progress report Wrap-up post We went to the wedding of Rick’s nephew on … Continue reading →
Good Morning! Welcome to a special edition of Sunday Salon, featuring the end-of-event questions for Dewey’s Read-a-thon. I participated in the read-a-thon yesterday, although I did more cheering than reading. My earlier update posts: Introducing myself, my garden, and my … Continue reading →
My single goal for Dewey’s Read-a-Thon is to finally finish Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson. I started this 900+ page behemoth in early February! It’s a good thing that I kept my reading goals modest today because it looks like this … Continue reading →