This is Random Acts of Kindness Week and it got me thinking about kindness in general. Times when I’ve been kind to others and the many, many times that others have been kind to… { read more }
The other day I reached for a book that’s long out of print, Monica Carr’s Country Diary, somehow drawn to take it up as I looked for inspiration, now that January’s firmly here and… { read more }
If you have little people ages 4 through 8, and indeed you yourself are still little at heart, you’ll appreciate this timeless, yet timely tale of dreaming big, never giving up and finding that… { read more }
At the beginning of the year I made a promise to read one book a month and review it here. I figured it’d be a good way to make myself finish the books I… { read more }
It’s fair to describe my parents as voracious readers. When they visit, they arrive with an assortment of books in tow, ranging from contemporary novels and biographies to straight up whodunits. And the best… { read more }