When I started school in the fall of 1979, my parents gave very little thought to where I would go. I went to the nearest public school, just like everyone else. We lived in a small town with only one private, Catholic school, so around 98% of the kids attended public school. Today, many parents…
Category Archives: Memoir
The Council of Dads
When Bruce Feiler is diagnosed with cancer, he wonders what his two young daughters would do if he wasn’t around. That led to his idea of forming a “council of dads” to be his voice. The Council of Dads is not at all maudlin, as a book written by a guy at a time when…
A Special Mother’s Day Giveaway from Hachette
Would you like to win this set of books graciously provided by Hachette? Just Let Me Lie Down By Kristin van Ogtrop God Never Blinks By Regina Brett The Cradle By Patrick Somerville Heart of My Heart By Kristin Armstrong Roses By Leila Meacham You don’t have to be a mother, you don’t have to…
On Reading: A Month of Nonfiction
Over the last few months, I had a lot of nonfiction piling up. I needed to finish these review copies. I wanted to finish them. So, I decided to set aside April as a month of nonfiction to see how that would affect my reading. Would I be able to finish them? I had quite…
This Is Not the Story You Think It Is
Did you ever finish reading a book and just want to say “Thank you” to the author for writing it? That’s exactly what happened to me as I was reading This Is Not The Story You Think It Is: A Season of Unlikely Happiness. This is a story of trust. Trust in what Laura Munson…
Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs
Last year I read If You Lived Here, I’d Know Your Name, by Heather Lende. (Click on the title to read my review of it.) So when I saw that she had another book out, Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs: Family, Friendships, and Faith in Small-Town Alaska I was all in!…
Hear No Evil
Hear No Evil: My Story of Innocence, Music, and the Holy Ghost is hilarious. I related to it because of all the 80′s culture references and appreciated the good-natured ribbing of Christian culture and biases. I wondered what approach he would take, if he would be sarcastic and belittling or play the “inside joke” card….
Never Tell Our Business to Strangers
Looking at the cover of Never Tell Our Business to Strangers, you imagine a story about a family involved with “The Family,” and conjure up images of The Sopranos and Goodfellas. Not that I was looking for a titillating story, but this story deals not with living a life of crime, but uncovering one after…
Spymom
I saw information for the book Spymom: The True Story of a Soccer Mom Turned Private Eye and I knew I HAD to read it. The press release mentioned that author Val Agosta had dreamed of being like Nancy Drew when she was a little girl, creating her own children’s detective agency to solve childhood…
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