I love the New York Times Book Review; it and the Sunday puzzle are my favorite parts of the NYT, and I impatiently wait every Saturday morn...

I've finally had some time to finish, or at least work on, crafts I started a while back. For Halloween this year I decided to cover som...

Amazing how school, housework, and my damn wiener kids take up all my time. I finished Jincy Willett's Winner of the National Book Awar...

The Glamorous Housewife over at Tales of a Retro Modern Housewife is giving away a neato bracelet made from plastic fruit. No wardrobe wo...

Sars over at Tomatonation runs a contest every year to raise money for Donors Choose , a wonderful charity that helps classrooms all over ...

The word "lyrical" is over-used in book reviews; every time there is an even slightly pretty sentence, it seems, the word is plast...

I've made little progress on my books or crafts in the last month because of houseguests, temper tantrums, new schools, doctors' app...