Book #61  of the year was  The Silver Chair  and  #62  was  The Magician's Nephew , both from C.S. Lewis' Narnia series and both rel...

Earlier this month there was so much rejoicing in Haiti and among people in the rest of the world who love Haiti. Although our Grenadiers di...

Book #49  of 2026 was  Scythe , by Neal Shusterman. I hadn't even heard of this YA book before, even though it came out in 2016. I have ...

Book #39 of 2026 was  The War I Finally Won , by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley. This is the sequel to  The War that Saved My Life , which I read...

  This month's Spiritual Journey Thursday host,  Chris Margocs , has asked us to reflect on beginnings and endings. She commented that t...

National Poetry Month has been passing me by this year. I did participate in the Progressive Poem, but other than that I have barely read an...

    Twenty years ago today, I pressed Publish on my first post on this blog. Practically everything was different about my life back then. I...