3 Positive Energy Exercises (No Physical Exercise Required!)
This year, I’m shaking things up a bit. I’ve started spending 30 minutes a day on positive energy exercises (and I am LOVING it)! If…
Year: 2020
How to Beat a Reading Slump
It started with crazy deadlines at work. Then I got swept up in family obligations, sushi nights, celebrity gossip sites, bronchitis. Next thing I know,…
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Five stars! Totally loved it! Like Water for Chocolate has lingered on my TBR list for a zillion years. Finally I got around to reading…
Adolphe Henri Laissement: “Cardinals in a Vatican Hall” or “Eavesdropping” (1895)
Eavesdrop Your Way to Better Writing
Shhh, don’t tell anyone, but I eavesdrop. Sorry, but this book told me to do it: The Writer’s Idea Book by Jack Heffron. Sometimes I’ll…
The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton
Uhhgh. There I was, first job out of college, working as a receptionist, bored out of my mind . . . zzzz. So, what’s a…
The Know-It-All by A. J. Jacobs
Long ago, in the year 2002, before Wikipedia overtook the reference world, a journalist named A.J. Jacobs embarked on a quest: Read the Encyclopedia Britannica,…
How to Read Waaay More Books
Like everyone normal, I try to read at least 52 books a year. Some of you might be thinking, Pshaw! 52 books is nothing. Last…