February 11, 2016
by jenniferpuryear
Book Title: Sum
Valentine’s Day was serious business when I was a kid. First there was the box decorated at school with construction paper hearts and white paper doilies: it needed to be flawless in both design and execution. Then each classmate needed to get the right Valentine, or at least not a stupid or embarrassing one (there were stupid and embarrassing ones even at a tender age). …
February 10, 2016
by jenniferpuryear
Book Title: Sum
I once told my husband not to worry about Valentine’s Day, back in the early years of our marriage. He had been sick, I think, and maybe in a demanding period at work. Ladies, do you think I meant for him to skip it altogether? I didn’t mean for him to skip it altogether. I meant he didn’t have to worry about it too much …
February 9, 2016
by jenniferpuryear
Book Title: Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
You can’t ignore it. Valentine’s Day is the 1000-pound gorilla in the drug store, the grocery store, the mall. It’s coming – and fast! I’ve personally gotten a headstart on the chocolates, seeing as I was at Godiva anyhow. I’m also enjoying the most engaging little book of bon bons, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives, by David Eagleman. This is candy for the mind and …