Grab Your Life & GO LIVE It…!
2019-12-31
Happy New Year Group and cheers to you! My word for 2020 (and possibly the next couple of decades) is GO! Here is why…Continue Reading
Summer Reading… Ugh? or Yay!
2018-08-31
Summer Reading. Kind of funny the double connotation this phrase has in our home (and possibly yours?). For my kids… summer reading!? UGH. (Though they did end up enjoying their school’s choices – phew). For me… summer reading!?! YAY bring it on! I love summer reading… Continue Reading
Ladies, Grab This BOOK & READ IT – Allison Pearson’s how hard can it be?
2018-08-20
If I had read this book a year in advance of my 50th birthday, I may not have allocated an entire year to celebrating it. This book and it’s fictional story lay out in no uncertain terms the “challenges” attendant with this number rolling around on your age dial as a female…Continue Reading
Summer Reading (Jodi Picoult) Inspired by Social Media (Wolfgang2242)
2018-07-30
In 2007/2008 (eeh gads… ten years ago!) I went through a major Jodi Picoult phase. I devoured every book she had written on the very same lawn chair from whence I type today. I loved her CSI approach on topics that were “ripped from the headlines” and how she braided fictional stories around true and life shattering events…Continue Reading
Grab this Book & Read It – Before We Were Yours
2018-07-06
My foray down the electronic book path was short lived. I missed pages – turning them, carrying them, reading them – but what I really missed was owning the physical version of something that I loved and subsequently gifting that treasure to a friend who I knew would appreciate it (more on this shortly). Apparently, I am in the minority on this stance…Continue Reading
Tiny Beautiful Things
2017-10-12
I had the hard fought opportunity to see Tiny Beautiful Things on stage earlier this week. I had the good fortune of receiving this book in the mail some years ago. And now for me the two are intertwined. To read more…Continue Reading
Grab Your Group & Stay Home – Happy 4th of July!
2017-07-04
After 35 hours of travel, staying in for the weekend sounded like a good idea…Continue Reading
Going on a road trip? Grab a book “on tape.”
2017-05-26
In this era of being so individually connected to our devices, it is nice to find a media diversion that encourages the use of our collective ears, hearts and imaginations…Continue Reading
Go See Come From Away on Broadway
2017-03-08
When your love of books and the theater collides (and your dogs decide to squish into the photo): Come From Away Now on Broadway…Continue Reading