Rereading Summer Sisters
Summer Sisters is one of Judy Blume’s adult novels. (She has several.) It was also one of the first real ‘adult’ books I owned – purchased at Target when I… Read more >
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Barefoot (and Pregnant with Emotion)
Barefoot by Elin Hilderbrand is about three women spending their summer on Nantucket, and (since we were in Nantucket just a few weeks ago) I grabbed this book off my… Read more >
Big Magic Middlesex
After reading a few “meh” books lately, I was in the mood to read something I knew I liked… Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides had been sitting front and center on… Read more >
You’ve Got Neck Cream
I did something yesterday. I read a book. Not like a chapter of a book or a hundred pages of a book – I read a whole book, start to… Read more >
2018 Books
Time for my annual post about real-life books that exist outside of my imagination… I read 34 books in 2018 and acquired several new favorites: First – My Sunshine Away… Read more >
Happy New Year… a few days late.
Happy New Year! Matt and I are ringing in the new year with colds…. noses that alternate between runny and stuffy, sore throats, and just for fun – I’ve got… Read more >
Damn it, Darn it, and Yay!
I got a new laptop. As best as I can figure, my trusty, old Toshiba laptop was about seven years old… Or maybe eight. I had WANTED to write my… Read more >
Barbies… and death…
That’s the note I found this afternoon tucked among all my writing—an oversized, yellow Post-it note that just says Barbies…and death… It’s my handwriting… I’m sure I had a brilliant… Read more >
To pronounce it right or wrong. That is the question.
I got a new car today and now I have a big decision to make: Am I going to pronounce the brand of the car “correctly”? Or am I going… Read more >
New Miserable Experience
A few weeks ago, Matt asked me if I wanted to go see the Gin Blossoms. They’re currently touring in celebration of the 25th anniversary of their most successful album – aptly named… Read more >