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 ...
I’ve been doing more writing than reading this summer, and that feels good. There’s nothing like being in “the flow.” And all writers and creative folk know that’s not something you can just “call up” at will. As I write, the crickets are singing their August song, which is the sound of fall approaching. So let’s get right down to what ...
Summertime…where the livin’ is easy and my idea of heaven is a reclining chair, an iced tea with lemon, a bit of breeze and an engrossing book. One thing is for certain, publishers unleash the floodgates this time of year with a poo-poo platter of choices for every taste. So…grab your favorite landscape escape, sunscreen, a cold beverage, and dig in ...