Good news: I'm writing this while it's pouring rain - so there is an extra layer of Very Literary on top of this. Can you feel it? Bad news: it's been about 18 months since I did a book review, and I'm overwhelmed by the thought of trying to tell you all the good books I've met! In the middle of that time, for a semester, I audited a "reading literature" book discussion group at my old grad school. I - and three others - were up on tv screens on a wall in Dallas, while the r

My new friend and I are laughing so hard we are wiping away tears. I can barely catch my breath. I sit in a chair close to her at the end...

I stand in the kitchen on a rainy October day eating blueberry coffee cake. My mom has been diagnosed with cancer. Life throws us this...

I went to the eye doctor today. I wear contacts and glasses and needed to update the prescription, as I've been feeling my right eye...