" Ex-Wife " by Ursula Parrott is the February choice for my Childless Collective Nomo Book Club . I first read this book in Novemb...

A hat tip to  Mali , whose post " 2016: Looking back on the blog " has inspired me to do the same for the past several years. Also...

We are home... four weeks/one month after we left, and two weeks later than we'd originally planned.  I still have to (mostly) unpack.  ...

I started doing a specific "Reading Year in Review" post  in 2020 . I figured that since I was doing an overall year in review pos...

(** CONTENT WARNING :  Sudden death;  some graphic details.**) My first experience with death came when I was about 4 years old. We'd br...

In 2023, I tried a new "Year in Review" format. It was shorter and easier to write than what I had done in previous years,  and fe...

Having cleared my book club obligations for the next while, I eagerly dove into " The Impossible Fortun e" by Richard Osman -- boo...