Cathy at " Slow Swimmers and Fried Eggs " recently wrote a thought-provoking post about " emotional labour " -- the soc...

I had planned to write something about the Oscars today -- but I never expected they would end the way they did .  That was pretty wild, h...

" Shoulder the Sky " (also known as "Winter and Rough Weather") by D.E. Stevenson  is the third volume in a trilogy my...

George Clooney (age 55) & his lovely (and highly accomplished) wife Amal (age 39) recently announced that they are expecting -- not ju...

It's Family Day here in Ontario (& several other Canadian provinces) -- a holiday which ( as I have often complained in the past ...

The Lost City of Z:  A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann had been languishing in my to-read pile for the last few yea...

Okay, I will admit I've been wallowing in my annual " I hate February" mode lately, perhaps a little too much. ;)  Time for...