Taking the ordinary to the extraordinary one small change at a time.
It is a lovely Sunday evening and I am close to finishing Caitlin Moran’s How To Be a Woman, the fourth book in my current quest. Can I just say I am blown away. I can’t even begin to describe how much I am enjoying reading this book. Her writing is the kind that makes me... Continue Reading →
Last year I did not do anything for Lent. Not a thing. Maybe because the year before I sent out thank you notes to some friends for Lent. I ended up scaring a few dear friends who thought I was sending out final farewells before I did something awful. My apologies dear friends. I did... Continue Reading →
I drive a lot. I mean a lot. Back and forth to Blacksburg to see dear old Dad has me on the road more hours and miles than I care to think about. And when you are on the road a lot, audio books become a wonderful and welcome companion. I have also found, if... Continue Reading →
The topic of this post is pretty much one of the main reasons I briefly stopped posting on the blog - my project to go through every book in my home and sum them up in a monthly round-up. Reading is soooooo much easier than writing. And the number of books I was reading were... Continue Reading →
February was a month where I learned that reading is probably one of my favorite methods of procrastination, second only to sleeping. Or eating doughnuts, yeah, I would have to add eating doughnuts. Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City & Sparked the Tabloid Wars, Paul Collins. Wow. You know those... Continue Reading →
I am pretty clueless when it comes to all things romance. The longest of my relationships could probably be counted in weeks. And, well, I can pretty much sum up the tenor of those relationships in one word - dysfunctional. Yeah, no surprise there. Oh wait, no! My bad. There actually has been one love... Continue Reading →
Living A la Mode 