The Mrs. Pollifax books are delightful so when I found a copy of A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax in a little free library, I took it even though I...

Today is my sister’s birthday. She's pretty cute, eh? More than 8 years ago, she was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. For the pa...

The other day, I was rummaging around on the intertubes, and I landed on a TimesMachine page for a 1952 copy of the New York Times. What rea...

Middlemarch. Yes, I've read it before - I read it in college for English 272, which was a survey class on some 19th century Brit Lit c...

At the end of last year, I learned about a "slow read" of War and Peace . Something about the idea of reading a chapter a day intr...

Of course yes, it's April Fool's Day. It's also the birthday of Gil Scott-Heron (b. 1949), and the anniversary of the day that...

I'm not going to lie: the spice cake with the baked icing intrigued me, because "baked icing". I had never heard of such a...