On the East coast, the end of February always feels like we’ve passed the hump and broken the ugly spine of winter. So how better to honor my last ever school winter break than to take off for more winter in Sun Valley, Idaho? But the truth is, winter just feels different out West. Wait an hour and the snow squall becomes a cobalt blue sky. The ...
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 ...
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 ...
Back to work, school and the routine, which hopefully includes reading. The lazy days of summer are gone, but there’s a virtual American Idol season’s-worth of talent in the books out this September. Many of you expressed the desire to click and buy right away, so you’ll now be able to do so when you click on this link. Each month I’ll feature an ...