My middle-school-aged son was recently telling me about the latest craze in schools these days, Silly Bandz. They’re little shaped rubber bands that the kids are all wearing on their wrists. All kinds of animals (from current to extinct as well as mythical), musical instruments, people, holiday shapes and symbols—and of course in every variety […]

As I mentioned before, I’m taking a little time off between projects to refresh. I’m reading more, and just yesterday went to a book club meeting. We read The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, which we all enjoyed even though most of us couldn’t remember the title correctly when anyone else asked what […]

At the risk of admitting I sometimes sound like an old geezer (can a woman be a geezer?) I’m going to share part of a conversation I recently had with my husband. We were talking about some of the differences between young people and older ones, and even to me we sounded every bit like […]

Here’s the latest from my friend Deb Raney! Almost Foreverby Deborah RaneyA Hanover Falls Novelfrom Howard/Simon & Schuster Unearthing a lost memory may cause her to lose everything she holds dear. but could it also set her free? Volunteer Bryn Hennesey was there at the Grove Street Homeless Shelter the night five heroic firefighters died […]

This past weekend my husband was talking to our son about various life experiences and a story came up from his childhood. As a boy, my husband was crazy about playing sports. Baseball and basketball, mainly, but he loved other sports, too — almost anything he had the opportunity to play, he loved. Fifth grade […]