I bought the Go-Go's first album, Beauty and the Beat , early in the spring of 1982, when I was a university student. The title and t...

I've read many books about the Kennedy family over the years, so I was familiar with the story of Rosemary, Joe & Rose Kennedy...

I'm on an Agatha Christie kick lately. ;)  The second " Partners in Crime " novel by Christie to be filmed for television wa...

( Me, as a 19-year-old university student in my dorm room, going to a punk rock social (dance), February 1980, and trying to look approp...

Like many of you, I'm sure, I gobbled up Agatha Christie mysteries, one after another, when I was a teenager.  The details of the plot...

If you're like me & enjoy reading footnotes, have I got a book for you!! I heard about " Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobi...

Pat Benatar 's first album, " In the Heat of the Night ," came out in 1979, just as I was graduating high school and startin...

Someone once told me they thought I looked like Ashley Judd  (!). I don't quite see it (maybe 30 years and 50 pounds ago??) but I took...

It was a good vacation for reading:  I polished off five books over two weeks, bringing my 2015 total to 18. :)  Here are some capsule revie...

Back in the mid-1970s, a neighbour pressed a paperback book upon my mother. "You MUST read this," she said. So Mom did -- and th...

" Going Gray " by Anne Kreamer has been in my to-read pile for some time now -- and after I wrote about my last visit to the ha...

As an avid genealogist, I am a sucker for TV shows like Henry Louis Gates's " Finding Your Roots " on PBS and " Who Do ...

When I first started reading blogs some 7-8 (!!) years ago (and eventually screwed up the courage to start my own), the childless/free cor...

When the paperback version finally came out in the late 1980s (early on in my marriage), I eagerly pounced on Candice Bergen's well-re...