Coasting Along

So in a couple of weeks my ten years of reading will be over and I'll start a new year. In ten years' time, I have read 1,358 books ...

Four-star non-fiction reads are still pretty awesome. Here are some of the ones I still remember and think about. Catch a Wave: The Ris...

Looking back over my ten years of reading lists, there are many, many 4-star books. That's probably the largest category. And if I were ...

I read more non-fiction than fiction, and I generally enjoy it more, too. (There is SO MUCH bad fiction out there!) As my list shows, I like...

As this year comes to an end, I am also coming to the end of a 10-year period of recording every book I read. I started in January 2007, and...

I had to run into the library this morning to pick up a book I'd requested, and I stopped to look at the Friends of the Library sale rac...

Todd and I went to hear his favorite author, Orson Scott Card , speak at Christopher Newport University last night. Card has written approxi...

I moved around my study a couple of months ago, and found some extra wall room for a small bookshelf. I'd been wanting a small shelf for...

I was so disappointed when we moved to southern Virginia seven years ago and I got a good look at the library systems here, first the county...

I was going to run some errands this morning, but as the snow is falling again and accumulating far beyond what the weather people said it w...

This is the year I turn forty, and even though it doesn't happen until October, I am already wrestling with it hard. One of the many anx...

My dad works at a school, and when I was a kid, he often brought home discards from the school library to help meet my insatiable book needs...

A year or two ago, a couple of Youtube videos were making the rounds on all the forums and e-mail lists--a 90-something-year-old woman named...

Ah, what a lovely day for cleaning out the linen closet! Which is what I did this morning. Also sorted Todd's clothes, and dusted our be...

One of the unfortunate things about starting your blog way back in the ancient days of Blogger is that all the nifty new features are inappl...

When I was ten or eleven, I came across a copy of The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank somewhere, and read it eagerly. I don't think...

On Sunday, Todd made plans to play 18 holes of golf in Williamsburg with his boss and a couple of co-workers, so I went along and dropped hi...

Do you get grumpy in the afternoons? From about 3:00 till about 6:00, I just feel dreadful most days. I know part of it is a blood sugar pro...

I don't have much to say, I've just been fumbling around here trying to get used to these lenses and battling headaches. It's be...

Whenever I think of Abraham Lincoln, I think of this quote from Sarah Vowell's book The Partly Cloudy Patriot : "How many of us dre...