Real Women, Real Wisdom: A Journey into the Feminine Soul is a collection of 17 essays by women "of a certain age," all reflec...

After tripping, overtopping my waders and becoming terminally tangled in the logs and snags in the bottom of a hole I should have known abo...

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Carry Yourself Back to Me is Deborah Reed's debut novel under her own name, following close on the heels of the publication under he...

On another day it's a muskrat or a mink or a squirrel or a possum, or even once a feral pet ferret in Michigan's upper peninsula. -...

THE CHALLENGE I enjoyed the Birth Year Reading Challenge hosted by Hotchpot Cafe. The idea is to read books published in the year of you...

A girl and an older woman were walking along a metaled pathway. --  The Anti-Death League by Kinglsey Amis . Kingsley Amis is one of my...

In the wine world, the self-important Robert Parker , with his comb-over and air of gravitas, has come to represent fustiness and, worse, ...

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In September 1982, Moe Momtazi sat on a motorcycle with his heart in his throat and his hands gripping the waist of a drug runner. -- Vood...

In my 61 years on this planet I have come to accept that almost everything can change. -- from the Introduction to Real Women, Real Wisdom:...

Gillon lay in bed with her eyes closed. -- Girl From the South by Joanna Trollope. I only reacently started reading Trollope's boo...

Cold fog quiets the birds and shifts like hot steam above Lake Windsor to the east.  Minutes earlier hailstones sliced past Annie's bedr...

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Fall is in the air! I am running out of time to finish my challenges. To keep track of my reading for the year, I like to do quarterly blo...