YES!!!!!!   Casting for three of the four main roles in the movie version of Richard Osman's "The Thursday Murder Club" was a...

Annoying thing/blogging note :  Writing a recent book review, I suddenly realized I hadn't changed the little blurb I put at the end of ...

I thought this article from the Washington Post (by Cole Arthur Riley) was highly thought-provoking:  " Black History Month is over. Th...

Is anyone planning to watch the Oscars (Academy Awards) tonight??  Oscar Night has always been huge at our house ( as I've written in th...

This weekend marks the start of National Infertility Awareness Week in the U.S. & in Canada (although for some weird reason, the U.S. d...

In the summer of 1972, I was 11 years old & spending a few weeks at my grandmother's in the States. It seemed like every other ad on...