Reading, Writing, Working, Playing

I first read JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit in my teens in the 1970s, and I enjoyed it so much that I embarked on  The Fellowship of the Ring ...

Isn't this a fantastic cover?   The Big Book Summer Challenge , hosted by Sue at Book by Book , is one of the few challenges I do each y...

Happy June! Blogging has taken a backseat to removing all the furniture, etc from the living room for the hardwood floor installation, which...

It was my blogoversary on Wednesday, May 27 (aka yesterday). Babies born when I started blogging in 2008 are graduating from high school. Pl...

 Since my last post, we took a wonderful trip to Cortez, CO for the annual Ute Mt Birding Festival, came home to two birds' nests in ver...

So why did I give Wild for Austen: A Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane , by Devoney Looser, five stars? I already knew Austen to be a...

It seems everyone was reading The Correspondent , by Virginia Evans, last year, and with good reason. I thoroughly enjoyed this epistolary n...

 Two more Scottish-based books under my belt.  The Royal Stuarts: A History of the Family that Shaped Britain , by Allan Massie - a solid th...

Spring has come early to Colorado--the daffodils are just about done, as are the apple trees (both ornamental and fruiting), and the lilacs ...

Ten years ago or so, my husband and I went to Kearney, Nebraska for the spring migration of Sandhill Cranes. Every year since then, we have ...