Over the years, with multiple moves, my current book collection has been whittled down to absolute favorites. There’s also a smattering of older books, playing a more decorative role on the shelves, with their leather spines and gold embossed letters. None of them have much intrinsic value, but it’s the sentimentality that ensures they always make the ...
Happy Valentines, Gal-entines….all of it. It’s nice to focus on a day of love, whether we’re showering it on spouses, partners, parents, friends kids or pets. Love is in the air. And with the coldest and most snowy winter I can recall in a while…. Nothing says cuddle up on the couch like a good book. Here are some February favorites for every taste ...
Ho ho ho. The big man will soon be coming down the chimney and the Hanukkah gifts are ready to be wrapped. We all know it’s more fun to give than to receive, but I hope there’s a book with your name on it somewhere this holiday season. Curl up by the fire and let a story take you away. Here are a few suggestions for this month and a few out early in ...
This month is about crisper temperatures, gorgeous fall leaves and blue skies. I miss the days of going all out on imaginative Halloween decorations; carving pumpkins, skeleton candles and ghosts on the front door. These were the days long before those giant inflatable monsters and ghouls on the lawn, that end up looking like a used sheet on the grass ...
The smell is in the air. You could blindfold me and take me out to an Indian summer day and I could name the season. Fall’s scent is tinged with a kind of hardwired nostalgia for the death of summer and that old feeling of back to school. Cut-offs get put away, sundresses folded and there’ a rush of cooler air coming through the windows that makes ...