Furiously Writing

At my book club holiday party, one of the women told us about the card carrying feminist bookstore in NY that has a book of the month club...

Love, like life, is messy. This book gets it. Alison Winn Scotch's  Between Me and You  is a love story at once tender and funny and h...

Read it, read it now! According to Good Reads, I've read 46 books so far this year. And Cherise Wolas'  The Resurrection of Joan...

If you are ever driving and see a sign like this: pull over immediately! We were driving through Purcellville, Virginia, on our way to ...

  Babyface's birthday! Of course I love Babyface's birthday. We told him he could have anything he wanted for dinner and he chos...

Grateful today for my new coffeemaker (replaced the old one that My Heart's Desire was afraid would burn our house down), a little tim...

I was waiting for a number of holds at the library (okay, libraries , I’m kind of a library card collector) and Eligible: A Novel by Curtis...

It’s summer. And every season my family makes a family fun board. My Heart’s Desire, Babyface, and I all come up with ideas and write them d...

How to read  A Paris All Your Own: Bestselling Women Writers on the City of Light , edited by Eleanor Brown   1) Get passport 2) Read t...

Bryn Greenwood’s beautifully written novel  with a controversial theme (the less you know about the book before you start, the better) spark...

Reading Cat Marnell's How to Murder Your Life , it took me a long time to realize that this was not a recovery memoir. I thought it woul...

Yesterday I took a class called Procrastination, Perfectionism & Me. It was great. I got a lot out of it, including a reminder that doi...

  Flowers!  Daffodils and forsythia are my favorites since they bloom so early. Farmer's markets!  I got out of the habit of goin...

Today I am grateful for library book sales, intense workouts, that it's maxi dress season, allergy medicine, super comfy jeans, um, I me...

I got Did You Ever Have A Family? by Bill Clegg from the library and once I started reading it, I stayed up way too late and finished it in...

Family fun. My dad and stepmom have visited a few times and I love to see them with Babyface.  Also, they have grandparent privilege so if ...

Today I am grateful for morning meditation, the break from the heat, library books on Kindle, summer produce, being able to not take things ...

My mom visited for a long weekend and Babyface was the star of the show. The super-strict mom I grew up with has been transformed into...

Lily King's Euphoria is a dizzying, beautifully written novel. I listened to it on Audible and no wonder I was driving so slow. It...

Today I am grateful for sunshine, air conditioning, homemade popsicles (My Heart's Desire bought these rocket and sailboat shaped molds...

First I listened to a sample Anita Diamant's The Boston Girl on Audible but found the narrator's voice grating, so I downloaded it ...

Today I am grateful for a long holiday weekend, My Heart's Desire's parents are coming down tonight,  Radical Acceptance , book club...

As a housewarming gift, we received a robot vacuum.  I thought I'd like it.  Instead, I love it.  And I'm not much of a housekeeper...

Today I am grateful for going to bed early, that Babyface loves to listen to Oh, Happy Day , lemons, high-quality problems, bug repellant, t...

Today I am grateful for: waking up on time, electricity, light traffic, being able to laugh instead of getting mad, it's not so freaking...

Something about Gretchen Rubin's Better Than Before really clicked with me.  I enjoyed her two previous books and even took some of he...

Reading magazines in my comfy chair.  I love magazines and subscribe to many.  One of my favorite things to do first thing in the mornin...

I went to the Habitat for Humanity Restore looking for towel bars and a ceiling fan.  I purchased neither of those items.  Among the mishmo...

Today I am grateful for Southern Pecan coffee, my Better Than Before online master class, finally breaking down and buying an extra phone c...

I listened to Jill Alexander Essbaum's Hausfrau (affiliate link) and I was struck by two things.  One, the story is intriuging and almo...

Today I am grateful that Spring is allegedly on the way, great books from the library, fires, warm wraps, clean water, gas in my car, hugs f...

Last year I received a lovely holiday gift...that didn't fit so I returned it for a gift card.  The gift card has been sitting around fo...

Today I am grateful for being an early riser, Britney Spears Pandora radio, UP24, new sneakers, heated blankets, the fairy lights still arou...

In previous years, I've set ambitious goals like I did in 2010 , quarterly goals in 2012 , monthly goals in 2013 , two small goals in 20...

Oh, Baby! The older Babyface gets, the more fun and the challenging he is.  In 2014, he loved reading even more, playing with his playh...