Indie Bookstore of the Month – Word After Words Books in Truckee, California. wordafterwordbooks.com/ Whenever we visit Bob’s brother Jimmy and the rest of the Truckee Woodruffs, this bookstore is one of my first stops in the picturesque Western downtown, complete with gunslinger wooden sidewalks. It’s the best place to browse what’s new and check out ...
Some men are born gift givers. If you are looking for the perfect gift check out these top gifts of the year. They zealously clip ads, create lists, or can file away a well-dropped hint. Others, well, others have different talents. My husband falls into the latter category. In all matters of gift purchasing, he must be led, like a bull with a nose ...
It’s time for the daily public sexual harassment witch hunt to stop. I don’t speak for everyone, but I’m getting weary of revelations about some older (or not) clueless man being rightfully eviscerated for harmful and horrible behavior, some of it years ago. This isn’t an easy piece to write and here’s why: I have always been a feminist, advocating ...
November is a month of extremes. We enter it stuffing our faces with leftover Halloween candy and we exit it stuffed like a turkey. In the middle is Veteran’s Day, a time to pause from work, school or life and think about patriotism and those who serve our country, no matter what your politics. To that end, I’ve included two books with a military ...
It’s still unseasonably warm as I write and it seems as if hurricanes, fires, mass shootings and other natural and man-made disasters loom in our nation’s self conscious, harbingers of a strange time. These events remind us how little control we truly have over certain aspects of our lives. And they make me want to escape. Reading is a wormhole to ...