Where living an amazing life never gets old
Thank you to St. Martin’s Press for sponsoring this post and giving me the opportunity to share this amazing book. I loved everything about Kristin Hannah’s latest novel, The Great Alone, except for one thing: I didn’t get any work done this weekend because I could NOT put the book down.
Forget Best Foreign Film of the Year. This devastating movie from Lebanon should be named Best Picture of the Year.
I would literally watch Saoirse Ronan in anything. In the gorgeous On Chesil Beach, she is as radiant as ever, daring you to take your eyes off her. You won’t. And you will find it impossible to believe this poised young Englishwoman was Lady Bird.
Well, well, well. I would have sworn I had just done one of these promotions but it’s apparently been a very long time and now I understand why I have so many books spilling out of every available space in my house and why so many of you are asking when I’m offering boxes of…
One of my favorite movies of the year is The Sessions, based on the true story of sex surrogate Cheryl Cohen Greene and her work with Berkeley-based poet and journalist Mark O’Brien, who was confined to an iron lung after contracting polio at age six. The story is riveting, and comprises the first chapter of Cheryl’s…
There are many people who believe that no good comes from television, but this story just may turn that line of thinking upside down. For millions of people all over the world, The Oprah Winfrey Show was much more than a TV show – it was a bridge between cultures, a window into therapy and…
Shocking as it may seem, Thanksgiving is next week! One of my favorite holiday traditions – one we started when the kids were really young – is that each member of our family makes a list of 10 things they’re thankful for. We take turns going around the table, reading one at a time, and…
I spend half my life in coffeehouses – and probably enough money to, well, I’m not even going to go there. So, when Silk offered me the opportunity to test their new Iced Latte coffeehouse drinks, I was wary but I grabbed my free coupon and headed to the grocery store. That first day, I…
