Cheaper by the 10,000
If someone asked for a list of books that have left a lasting impression on me—I might be a little bit embarrassed to admit Cheaper by the Dozen (the children’s… Read more >
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Up, Down, In, Out, Up, Down, In, Out…
All day (every day but Monday and Thursday) I sit in a mostly-empty house in my neighborhood. It’s a spec home, one of only two new-construction houses left to sell… Read more >
Little Wait-What??
I worry this may be an unpopular post, but I feel the need to confess… Little Women—the book—was kind of hard to read. I’m sure, SURE I read it when… Read more >
Water: It’s What’s for Dinner
It’s the second week of January, and I’m doing pretty well with most of my New Year’s resolutions: get 10,000 steps every day, write in my journal every night, do… Read more >
2019 Books
I read a record-setting 43 books in 2019. (One, Remember Me: A Lively Tour of the New American Way of Death by Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, not pictured.) Of those forty-three… Read more >
No Man is an Island, Damn it.
No Man is an island. That line from a John Donne poem is what I remember most from 11th grade English, or maybe it was 12th grade. (We had the… Read more >
You CAN Go Home Again…
Last weekend while Matt and I were in Illinois, we drove past our old house – our first house. Our connections to that house are many. Matt lived there for… Read more >
Maid me miss my grandma…
I recently read Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and A Mother’s Will to Survive – and it made me miss my grandma. Let me start by saying, I never once… Read more >
Baby Proof Canoodling
In my on-going Summer of Rereading, I recently finished Baby Proof by Emily Giffin. I wish I could remember when I read Baby Proof the first time… It was originally… Read more >
I feel so used…
Matt and I spent this past weekend at his family reunion in Stone Mountain, Georgia. And, like we always do when traveling, we sought out a local bookstore to make… Read more >