Sisters Book Club is a book club my sister and I accidentally started earlier this year. We enjoyed reading together so much, we’ve decided to invite others to read along … Continue reading Sisters Book Club: Sisterland by Curtis Sittenfeld
This is my photographic response to this week’s photo challenge by The Daily Post. I like taking photos, especially for this type of challenge. I find it leads me to see … Continue reading Weekly Photo Challenge: Foreshadow
Free-Range Kids: Giving Our Children the Freedom We Had Without Going Nuts with Worry by Lenore Skenazy My rating: 3 of 5 stars Free-Range Kids is a decent book. Skenazy’s … Continue reading Free-Range Kids by Lenore Skenazy
I put on my rubber boots and pulled latex gloves over my gardening gloves. My spouse put on the special farm-chemical elbow gloves I’d bought him, and we both donned … Continue reading Poison Ivy
This summer, there’s one homophonous mix-up I’m really enjoying for the images it inspires: pedal boat, peddle boat, and petal boat. Below I share my definition of each variation for … Continue reading Summer Semantics: Pedal, Peddle, Petal
The first day of each month, I’m posting a summary of what I read the previous month and what I plan to read in the coming month. I would love … Continue reading Bookends: July 2013
The Last Time I Saw You by Elizabeth Berg My rating: 3 of 5 stars I could have made it to last month’s book club at the library, but I … Continue reading The Last Time I Saw You by Elizabeth Berg
My kids were in swim lessons this week. This means that every day this week, rain for shine, we schlepped to the lake for their back-to-back lessons. Two days ago, … Continue reading Lost in Translation
This is my photographic response to this week’s photo challenge by The Daily Post. I like taking photos, especially for this type of challenge. I find it leads me to see … Continue reading Weekly Photo Challenge: Fresh
Wolf Brother by Michelle Paver My rating: 3 of 5 stars A friend from college recommended this series for my eight-year-old daughter. I’d intended to preview it before introducing it … Continue reading Wolf Brother by Michelle Paver
Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed by Mo Willems My rating: 4 of 5 stars Thanks to Mo Willems (with a little help from the Eric Carle Museum in Amherst, MA, … Continue reading Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed by Mo Willems
The August/September Sisters Book Club selection will be: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander Since I kind of sprung Sisterland on you all last month, … Continue reading Sisters Book Club August/September 2013 Selection
Imperfect Happiness 