Fast Fact: Some analysts estimate that since the 2003 creation of the Kimberley Process, which was designed to certify the origin of rough diamonds and ensure that diamond purchases do not fund violence, blood diamonds still comprise about 15% of the global diamond trade. Fast! Act!: Buy diamonds from registered members of StopBloodDiamonds.org, who have…
Joan Anderson’s Year by the Sea has been sitting on my bookshelf for so long, it was inevitable that the movie would come out before I had a chance to read it. It’s not surprising this memoir has become a kind of midlife classic because so many baby boomer empty nesters will be able to…
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I loved Allison Winn Scotch’s novel, Time of My Life, because it made me think about my own life and what I might’ve done differently. (Short answer: nothing!) In her new book, The Song Remains the Same, Allison once again explores the idea of starting over — this time, after tragedy. Nell Slattery is one…
We have fond memories of waiting for the big September issue of “Seventeen” to come out when we were teenagers. Now it’s “Vogue” we look forward to, and we remember trying to balance the four pounder that took up our whole mailbox a couple of years ago. That September 2007 issue of “Vogue” was the…
