Published in 1922, this novel continues to delight readers to this day. I took to the book in the early pages when nervous submissive Mrs. Wilkins latches onto the idea of a holiday in Italy. The villa was advertised in the Times to those who like Wisteria and...
Delia Owens’ debut novel, Where the Crawdads Sing is one of my favorite reads of 2018. It is a romance, a family saga, a coming of age story, and a murder mystery rolled into one, often poetic, book. Owens writes from a remarkable understanding of...
Well, I have a gentleman’s agreement on the sale of Chewy and I trust the buyer to tell me if he changes his mind. My husband and I may have named the truck Chewy because the old Studebaker sounded like Chewbacca when he headed down the road. I...
Prairie Fires Written by Caroline Fraser, Prairie Fires is a biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, her parents, grandparents and daughter couched in a history and discourse of the American frontier. The biography finds purchase in the final third of the...
In Memory of Lonny Gene Coots Advent 2018 December 2 My husband passed on November 15, 2018. He died in his sleep. I had gone to the other room. I was surly and tired. If I had known, I wouldn’t have left. I wonder two things: did God drive me from the room so...