Bill, Hillary, and The Rest of Our Lives
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The 5th of July is a great day to take a nap with your favorite toy, a squeaky mummy. Especially if it may be your birthday! (Since Pepper is a pup of uncertain parentage, we’re really just making a guess…
This new cookbook makes me want to shout “Hallelujah!” Or at the very least, “Amen!” Nicki Pendleton Wood has compiled a gorgeous and spirited Southern cookbook, and I’ll be sharing it with everyone I know who enjoys a good recipe…
Walking into a cool library on a hot summer day is like stepping back in time. I often took my two young daughters when it was too hot to go to the pool or maybe it was raining. We went to…
Blazing hot summers and over air-conditioned libraries are a match made in heaven. Can’t you just feel that whoosh of cool air when the sliding glass door opens and you walk through? That delightful artificial chill invites you to come on in and stay…
“Actually, I’m a failed opera singer,” Ruta Sepetys says with a smile, but it’s the kind of smile that lets you know it still hurts. That was chapter one. Chapter two: she went to Los Angeles and worked in the…
We moms and dads do learn a few things along the way, thank goodness. Today’s post features a recent email exchange between two fathers… Jack: Where is your daughter in school? Bill: She’s still a junior in high school but…
“Brad Paisley, you can almost Start Me Up, but we are here for the Rolling Stones!” – Kobie Pretorius, Facebook, from LP Field, 6/17/2015. And from George Cassidy, author and rocker (reposted from December 2014): A Prince Among Stones by Prince…
I once had the chance to hear Paige Bainbridge sing with Holly Williams (daughter of Hank Williams Jr.) at Blackberry Farm. Outdoors at Yallerhammer, under the stars, Holly asked for a bit of help from the audience. I volunteered my…
I might not have made it past page 50 if this weren’t “the new Judy Blume,” but I felt an emotional attachment to the author and to finishing it. By the end, I was so glad I did. Judy Blume still has…