I always manage to get a lot of reading done while I'm on vacation, and this past holiday season was no exception. :)  I actually r...

Crosby, Stills, Nash (& sometimes Young) were part of the soundtrack of my growing-up years in the late 1960s and through the 1970s.  ...

After reading " The Gift of Wings " by Mary Henley Rubio earlier this fall -- probably the definitive biography of L.M. Montgomery...

Following our recent visit to Leaskdale , I finally dusted off & started reading the biography of L.M. Montgomery that I had bought ...

"Quitting" is a word I have long avoided when talking about my infertility journey. I stopped fertility treatments, I ended th...

Besides finishing off the previously reviewed " A Man Called Destruction ,"  I finished off three other books while on my recent v...

If it's spring/summer, I must be in the throes of a new musical obsession, lol. (Cases in point:  Raspberries , 2012;   the Rascals , ...

I love them, yeah, yeah, yeah. ;)  If you're a longtime reader of my blog, you'll know that I have had an almost lifelong love a...

Although I am not a parent (in the active sense, anyway), I am fascinated by parenting issues, and by how different childhood & parent...

Melanie Notkin , founder of Savvy Auntie , has a marketer's knack for identifying and catering to a neglected market segment -- in thi...

If you're a longtime reader of my blog, you might remember that I'm a big fan of Alan Bradley's Flavia de Luce mystery series...