I’m not sure which makes my skin crawl more. Hearing, “I have an idea.” Or hearing, “Just come up with a couple ideas.” I tell myself, “Ideas are fun!” And I wish I believed it. But in reality, daydreaming they’ve been completed is what’s fun. Daydreaming the Big Idea is a Whopping Success and all […]
Home Alone Together, Week Six: On Adaptation and Hope
I think the word for this week is adaptation. There comes a point when things change in a situation where you realize you’re in the thick of it and it’s time to just hold on for the ride. You’ve battened all the hatches, stocked up your disaster kit, turned off the electricity, and pulled out […]
Fiction Book Review: The Day of the Storm by Rosamunde Pilcher
Rebecca is trying to establish a life in London. She works in a bookstore and has been furnishing her new apartment with second hand antiques, when she receives a letter summoning her to her mother’s bedside in Ibiza, Spain. Her mother’s inconsistent parenting and bohemian way of life has created a distance between the two […]
Home Alone Together, Week Five: So Many Opportunities for Creativity
I’ve just placed a pan of granola in the oven. I’d discovered a stale box of Grape-Nuts in the pantry and for some reason, have been trying to be super frugal and not waste any food. Getting more groceries is a tad challenging, as I imagine many others know too well. And flour requires taking […]
Nonfiction Book Review: Solitude by Michael Harris
The book Solitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World by Michael Harris caught my eye months ago when I was at the library to pick up the book Singled Out. It was on the same shelf. The promise of this book was that it would show the reader how to be […]
April 2020 TBR List – What I’m Reading in April
I started these lists in a different time and place, it seems. A time when libraries and bookstores were open, when I drove places and needed audiobooks to listen to in the car. Now, I am thankful to be able to still work, albeit from home. So my commute is all of five steps. And […]
Home Alone Together, Week Four: Spread Love Not Fear
A person I know has started sending out a group text that often includes scary news stories or generally bad ones. The latest closures, or newest announcement about staying at home, or the fact that people aren’t staying at home (which wasn’t news to me). The people in this group are all adults, many with […]
Fiction Book Review: The Summer House by Marcia Willett
Family secrets anyone? Sign me up. There are a few to uncover in The Summer House by Marcia Willett. Marcia Willett has written around a dozen books and they all revolve around families and relationships, often with family secrets. She is an English author. And this fact about her is probably my favorite – she […]