To say that Another Way the River Has is a collection of essays inspired by the Pacific Northwest is both an overstatement and inadequate...

Maeve Binchy has the knack for making stories about ordinary people be very interesting. She is like Anne Tyler in this. Echoes is no...

While he maneuvered to pass a towline to the disabled trawler, a breaker caught the lifeboat broadside.  The boat did what it was designed...

Thanks to a book chain letter I sent out a couple of months ago, at least one book came into my mailbox last week. Thanks go to Avis of S...

I've ignored the blog this weekend to celebrate the arrival of Billie and Ella, The Jazz Cats. We picked them up yesterday from the Oreg...