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When women form a circle
It used to be a sewing circle where women gathered from surrounding farms and nearby towns to sit...
Mysterious skies
On July 4, it seems there were more than fireworks lighting up the Tehachapi skies. People were...
Walking through time
Have you ever walked in the footsteps of history? Good writers use their words with skilled...
Will the real monster please stand up
When the last book in the Harry Potter series was published, readers wondered what J.K. Rowling...
Welcome pardner!
Everyone deals with stress in different ways. Books help. Some need a deep diversion and turn to...
A tease of trees
There comes a time, after strong fall winds and freezing winter nights, that there is enough warmth...
Saying it like Jane Austen
“The change was such as might have plunged weak spirits in despondence,” words by Jane Austen...
Home from school series
Home-schooling responsibilities came suddenly. Parents had to become teachers, utilizing friends...
Men with wings
The earliest podcasts were spoken around fires and deep in caves, at the bedsides of children, and...
Beware the Ides of March
“Beware the Ides of march,” thought often to be a term from Shakespeare, really originated in...
Great loves
February is a month when we turn to great loves, in our lives, in cinema, in novels, in history....
TADA presents 'Casper & the Haunted Mansion'
TADA Acting Studio’s Theatre Creators Kids are at it again. We are proud to announce our fourth...
Three winters
Three winter stories could not be more different. I suppose just as each winter, year by year, is...
Possibilities
It is a brand new year, so how about exploring brand new worlds? The first book to be reviewed in...
It starts small
A cozy mystery is crime fiction where sex and violence are downplayed with humor and...
Holiday Cozy
December can be frightful...frightfully busy. Holiday preparations, social engagements, baking. I...
A ghost story for December? Definitely!
A ghost story for a December book review? As said by my Scandinavian relatives, “Ya sure ya...
We give thanks…
Here we are in November. Seasons have changed. Leaves are falling and blowing from our yards to our...
Prehistorical
This month of November, when we give thanks for the blessings in our current lives and celebrate...
Scary Bumps in the Night
At the end of the last book review I promised you “bumps in the night,” completely thinking I...
Turning over a new leaf
Tastes in books are very diverse from person to person. Some people want everything to end nice and...
Shall we go gothic?
No GPS. No smartphones. No internet. Yet they managed to get around, keep in touch and gather...
Living stones
If you are of a certain age, you might remember Pet Rocks. They were marketed in the 1970’s,...
Our A B Cs
Have you ever heard of a literary lipogram? It is a piece of writing, usually poetry, in which the...
Man's best friend
In my opinion, dogs absolutely are man’s best friend, but I’m not sure that we humans deserve...
