"We have been lost to each other for so long." -- The Red Tent by Anita Diamant. This is our Book Club book for March. I kn...

This week's Booking Through Thursday question asks about not finishing books: So … you’re halfway through a book and you’re hating i...

Frances Mayes did not spend one year traveling around the world and then writing about it in A Year in the World . She spend five or so ye...

"The therapist was terribly skinny and B.D. had the fantasy of fattening her up to a proper size. There was the old joke of getting bo...

"She was born peculiar, or so she thought." -- The Farmer's Daughter by Jim Harrison. This is one book from my Guilt Lis...

I fell into a blogging black hole the past few days, only getting back here in time for Mailbox Monday . The problem was a garage sale. M...

This week's Booking Through Thursday question asks: God comes to you and tells you that, from this day forward, you may only read ONE...

The Wall in My Head: Words and Images from the Fall of the Iron Curtain , published by Words Without Borders Anthologies, is a powerful c...

"Thinking of D. H. Lawrence gave her courage, for people were always having impulsive sexual encounters in Lawrence.  It was easier t...

I have a long list for Mailbox Monday , even though only one came in the mail. This week, I am also participating in Story Siren's vers...

Celia Donnelly comes from a long line of strong women with bad luck in husbands. Unfortunately for Celia, she has to learn of these famil...

The jury came back yesterday with a big win for my firm. I'm still giddy. And still reeling. The story is on CNN , The New York Time...

I am still waiting for the jury to come back in the second phase of our trial. Once they are back, this six-week trial that has consumed ...

This is our last day of trial, so things are a little hectic and I don't think I'll get a regular post up -- at least not in a timel...

"All of Europe had been fascinated for the past few days by televised images of avalanches descending in the wake of storms on certai...

"I rewrapped the wound, using the last of the gauze . . . . and that was when I looked up to see the iguana hissing in my face. ...

Several books came into my house last week, three even came in the mailbox in time for Mailbox Monday . This week, I am also participating ...

Published in 1953, The Marmot Drive was the first of John Hersey’s novels not set during WWII. It takes place over a weekend in a New Eng...

At my law office , we have a word for 15-year-old girls who have a sexual relationship with their 37-year-old doctors – we call them “clien...

"It was partly my fault for staying up so late copyediting the latest volume in Dee Dee Dawson's Legends of Lust series." ...

Although I have not made any progress, so far, on my own challenge, others have. I want to thank everyone who has been participating. We ...

"In the mid-to-late 1990s, while living mostly in Moscow, I managed to travel through a good part of the former Soviet Bloc." ...

"One fog-lidded dawn in summertime a city girl, whose name was Hester, stood near the whipping post on the Tunxis village green with ...

"Had these women, hair carved by beauticians, bodies encased in God knows what steely underclothes, ever felt what I felt? . . . If th...

While waiting for a jury last Friday (we are still waiting today), I went for a walk to stave off the jitters and, not surprisingly, ended...