Here I am halfway through the year, and I've already nearly met my yearly reading challenge. I always plan to read 52 books: one per wee...

Coincidentally, I picked two movies that premiered in 1942 for my watching this week: Now, Voyager with Bette Davis and Woman of the Year...

I haven't written about it much here, but I am a bit of an old movie buff, particularly films of the later 1930s to 1950s. Black and whi...

As glamorous as I've ever been (and I'm wearing Converse under there) Glamour is a lot of work, so I only consider it "worth it...

I began my dual career path as a teacher-who-writes twenty-six years ago, give or take.  Honestly, trying to do both meant I didn't writ...

Welcome to the first Wednesday of the month. You know what that means! It's time to let our insecurities hang out. Yep, it's the In...

  I felt as though I had no time for reading in May, but I did manage to finish six books. Now to be fair, three of them were quite short, a...