by me | Dec 31, 2021 | Books, current events, Holidays, writing
Fires are for reading by, chatting and napping by, cooking over, adding light to the night and warming up winter. That in 2021 U.S. citizens, including elected school board members in not far enough away Spotsylvania County, VA, promoted burning books they don’t...
by me | Oct 31, 2021 | Books, Family, Home, writing, writing for children
I made it to the lighthouse on a recent family beach visit, decades after I wrote the best chapter of my college honors thesis on Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse. Hello, Lighthouse by Sophie Blackall was more in keeping with the reading list for the trip as...
by me | Sep 21, 2021 | Books, current non-events, Home, writing, writing for children
A couple of weeks ago I couldn’t get to sleep, so I counted bookshelves instead of sheep (shout out to Kate Wolf’s line, “Countin’ troubles, ‘stead of countin’ sheep.”) I have no idea what number I came up with, but it was in...