Book Review: Surviving Savannah
Do you want to live? This is the quintessential question Patti Callahan dares to ask trauma survivors in Surviving Savannah. The answer makes all the difference in the quality of […]
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RIP: Marilyn Nally Stanton
Today is Marilyn Nally Stanton‘s first birthday in heaven. She quietly made one hell of a dent in the Universe and was the godmother for this site. She […]
Book Review: Before We Were Strangers
What happened to Clara McBride? This is the central question in Brenda Novak‘s riveting Before We Were Strangers. When she was just five years old, her daughter Sloane overheard her parents’ […]
Book Review: Obama
After watching a PBS documentary about White House photographer Pete Souza, I very much wanted to see his photos in Obama: An Intimate Portrait. This coffee table book sells for less than […]
Book Review: Disloyal
I know where the skeletons are buried because I was the one who buried them. – Michael Cohen In Disloyal, A Memoir: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to […]
Recipe: Curried Cheese Spread with Chutney
This simple yet elegant recipe harkens back to the snob-central days of the Junior League in Chicago circa 1974. It is one of my favorites and one of very few […]
Isolation Well-Being
Sadly, we’re at the 250K statistic of Covid-19 deaths. Most of us won’t be celebrating the holidays as we had hoped in order to keep our loved ones and ourselves […]
Book Review: Where Law Ends
I’m so happy that I didn’t buy Where the Law Ends: Inside the Mueller Investigation by Andrew Weissmann. The author portrays himself as a brilliant, ethical prosecutor. […]
Book Review: Big Summer
Drue Cavanaugh is steeped in white privilege. Big Summer by Jennifer Weiner rips away that facade and exposes the empty, painful loneliness within: I’d chased after [Drue], and she’d chased after […]
Book Review: 28 Summers
On a dreary, chilly, and drippy day this week, I snuggled in with Bitzie and Elin Hilderbrand‘s latest beach book, 28 Summers. It is dedicated to the late, great Dorothea […]
