Last week, after working at my computer for three straight hours, I took a mid-morning walk but found myself detouring, on the way back, to my neighborhood bakery, where I bought a butter walnut concoction coated with rich, dark chocolate that I intended to be my end-of-the day reward.
But halfway between bakery and home, my [...]
Here are a dozen fiction and non-fiction books that my husband Jon and I read this summer and want to share. We read most of them during two Reading Weekends, when we go away to simply read. Here’s what we read in a sweet little B & B called Acorn’s Hope Great Barrington (MA).
My [...]
Howard Zinn − historian, activist, and a member of the National Writers Union and the Boston Chapter for almost 20 years died on January 27, 2010. But his life and writing will inspire grassroots activists for many future generations.
Sarah Solomont feels stuck. She blames her house — it drives her crazy. “There’s too much stuff,” she says. “I can’t breathe.”
“Here’s my list,” my husband says, thrusting a computer printout at me. “Where’s yours?”
“No lists,” I say firmly.
I slip into the aisles of the textbook department, shoulders hunched. I’m feel like an interloper, intent as I am on raiding the inventory meant for college undergrads.
Clearly, I’m no undergraduate: that was decades ago. Yet I am drawn to this place. At least twice a year I wander its aisles, looking for what [...]
My son is in love and engaged to be married. Trouble is, he wants the two families to fall in love as well.
