Let’s talk about birth order among our favorite friends – The Friends! Is that geeky or nerdy? Who cares, it’s fun! I’m not sure how purposefully the writers of Friends may have included specific birth order personality traits into the characters, but these are so much a part of how humans interact that the patterns […]
Fiction Book Review: Scarlet Feather by Maeve Binchy
It is hard to pick a favorite book from among the wonderful books that the incomparable Maeve Binchy wrote. I could read them all, one after the other, and then upon finishing the lot, start over at the first one again. Reading her books is like having a picnic with your favorite foods in a […]
February 2020 TBR – What I’m Reading in February
How are we already one month into the year? Looking at my January TBR, true to form, I read all of the novels. To paraphrase Buddy the Elf, novels are my favorite. I didn’t make as much progress on the nonfiction books in my pile as I found other books that were just as interesting […]
Prose Poem Free Verse Ditty
Is it story or prose or poem? Do you show and tell and depict and describe? Do you take the reader on a little jaunt? A journey? A jolly jog along the poetic prose path where image and sensation and words frolic among the leaves and tramp or circle or swirl into a moment in […]
Books, They Do A Body Good: Short Story
Orla smiled at the librarian as she handed her the books she was ready to check out. Among the novels by Maeve Binchy and Philippa Gregory were the books Killer Resumes and Cover Letters That Work. It was time. Time to go for a job she really wanted. She’d been working entry level marketing jobs […]
Nonfiction Book Review: My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor, PhD
As my mom lay in the cardiac intensive care unit after her 5 way bypass, she suffered three strokes. They impaired her vision and affected her balance. Supporting herself as a graphic designer was no longer possible. Her life was turned completely upside down. And the effects rippled out to the rest of us. As […]
I Am Words
I am words and sentences and paragraphs compressed into my sinews, paper scraps stashed between the pleats and folds of my life. I am diamond hard-edged words that tumble from my pen on a streaming string from my brain to fingertips. A marching column of ants, letters flow from one to the next and can […]
January 2020 TBR List – What I’m Reading in January
A new year and a new decade and still so many books to read! My TBR list for this month is small. These are books I’ve read about in other books or already have on hand for other projects. I’m a huge library fan – go to your library! – so will look there first […]