I was 12 years old in 1973, a Canadian. I'm not sure when I became conscious of Roe v Wade or the ongoing battles over the abortion issu...

My D.E. Stevenson fan group has just finished our chapter-by-chapter reading & discussion of " The House of the Deer ," the l...

Mel at Stirrup Queens  just marked her 16th (!!) blogoversary!  Go congratulate her on this amazing milestone!   Bloglovin' was back u...

Well, that didn't last long...! Bloglovin' is showing a FEW news posts every day on my phone app, but the laptop version has been ...

" Again, Rachel " by Marian Keyes is the recently released sequel to 1997's " Rachel's Holiday " (which I just f...

There is far less gun violence in Canada than there is in the U.S. -- but unfortunately, that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.  Dh ...

I've been dimly aware of Irish author Marian Keyes for some time now, and " Grown Ups " has been in my TBR pile since it came ...