Greetings a little late! This is what comes with summer around this house—flipped schedules, no sense of date or time. I’d follow that description with long lazy days but I never seem to get many of those! This week, however, I’m so pleased to bring your attention to a new book that sounds like fun […]

You may recall this past winter I mentioned we had a plumbing problem. I’m happy to report a second miracle in connection that rather expensive inconvenience. The first was that it allowed us the opportunity to save a salamander (click here to read about that). This second miracle has to do with my hosta plants. […]

Welcome to the mid-week! As prolific as so many of my friends are, I don’t have a new book to share with you this week. But I was contacted by a blog reader, Larry Dignan, who pointed me to an article he’d recently composed in which he compiled a list of 50 books for writers. […]

For the past few years my husband and I have marveled—in horror—at how quickly our youth seems to be deserting us. We thought things started to go downhill after age 35, but how naïve we were! Aging after 50 is like the downside of a roller coaster compared to the more leisurely downward trend we […]

This week I’m pleased to have my friend Rachel Hauck visiting! Here’s the latest about Rachel’s newest book. Dining with Joy by Rachel Hauck Thanks for having me today! I’m no genius in the kitchen, but my heroine, Joy Ballard, finds herself doing a job she can’t do for all the right reasons. She’s a […]