The cover of the book makes it look like it was published in the 1960s. Imagine for a minute all kinds of ruins. Many can be very charmi...

My beautiful niece graduated from college yesterday. Here she is with my parents. Photo taken by my sister Kathy. Weather : Raining. Ea...

Book: The Impossible Knife of Memory by Laurie Halse Anderson Genre/Type: Realistic YA fiction Book Beginnings:       It started...

Flowering tree discovered on walk around Green Lake. Weather: Rain. Sun. Rain. Sun. Wind. Rain. Sun. Rain. (You get the picture.) Mus...

Yesterday, while we waited for the Seattle University Choir concert at St. Joseph's Cathedral in Seattle to begin, I ran around tak...

Book : Secret Son by Laila Lalami Book Beginnings: "The rain came unexpectedly, after nearly three years of drought. In those d...

I just completed the third book in the Lunar Chronicles, Cress by Marissa Meyer. What I'd rather be doing right now than writing this...

Today's Top Ten Tuesday topic is to pick characters who really X. I decided to create a list of really irritating characters. Check ou...

Edmond finally realizes that he loves Fanny. The end. I have completed Mansfield Park and now I can say that I have read all of Jane Au...

Poor Muffy. Our dog has a skin rash that has been difficult to treat. We've tried everything: antibiotics, change in diet, lots of ba...