As I’ve shared with you, I recently went through an anti-reading stage. I don’t know what happened, and it felt horrible, but, for months, I had no interest in picking up a book. I’m still not sure if it was just that I was preoccupied with a million other things or if my attention span…
As I get older, I seem to be drawn to historical fiction, appreciating more than ever the importance of passing down stories from one generation to the next. Susan Meissner’s new novel, A Fall of Marigolds, seamlessly blends the past and the present in a compelling and beautifully-told tale about a flowery scarf that ends…
I remember buying the Entertainment® book every year when my kids were little and sold them for all kinds of fundraising purposes. We used to keep them in the car because they had great coupons for restaurants and stores, and we’d always check the books before we went shopping or out to eat. Once the…
Now that our nest is empty and Michael is “retired,” we spend a lot of time traveling. There’s nothing we love more than discovering new places, and we rarely go back to the same destination twice. Except for Miraval.
Somewhere around my 50th birthday, my friends and I started holding restaurant menus up for each other across the table so we could read them. I held books at arm’s length and if my husband put something under my nose to take a look at, I had to push it a foot away to actually…