SYW: On being old, rainy days, why I don’t play golf, and love of flowers

It’s time for Melanie B. Cee’s weekly Share Your World! When you’re 90 years old, what do you suppose will matter most to you? I think it will be whether I am healthy enough to have a good quality of life. I’d like to be able to travel, but if not, I would want to […]

Question Fun: Time

Rory at A Guy Called Bloke and K9 Doodlepip has a twice weekly series of questions, called “Question Fun.” Today’s topic is ………….. A Question of Time How often do you actually deep think of time as a concept? Not often, unless my attention is drawn to it – I have read two books recently […]

SYW: On crossword puzzles, doctors, dates with parmesan cheese, and dogs

Cee’s Share Your World this week: In regards to puzzle what’s your choice: jigsaw, crossword, word search, mazes, logic or numeric puzzles, something else, or nothing? I do lots of different puzzles but mostly crosswords or jigsaw puzzles on my tablet or phone. I find myself obsessively doing one after another while I’m supposedly watching […]

2018 When Are You Reading Challenge

I’ve decided to join a reading challenge! This challenge, called When Are You Reading?, is to read a book set in each of the following time periods for a total of 12 books. Since I’m joining this half way through the year and I belong to 3 book groups, so I don’t always seek books […]

Book Review: “Zealot: The Life & Times of Jesus of Nazareth” by Reza Aslan

Review written on Jan. 24, 2018 in my personal journal; now posting for reading challenge When Have You Read 2018. Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan Non-fiction Rating: 4 stars Finished Reading: January 24, 2018 Zealot, by Reza Aslan, is the author’s quest to find the historical Jesus (as […]

Book Review: “A Gentleman In Moscow” by Amor Towles (Long)

I am including this book review that I wrote last January, for a reading challenge I just found out about: When Are You Reading 2018. A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles Fiction Rating: 5 stars, BEST BOOK Finished reading: January 5, 2018 This turned out to be a wildly popular book and last April […]

Book Review: “Everybody’s Son” by Thrity Umrigar (Spoiler Alert)

SPOILER ALERT: THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOLERS! I am including this entry from my personal journal in May for Sam Bishop’s When Are You Reading 2018 Challenge. Everybody’s Son by Thrity Umrigar Fiction Rating: 5 stars Finished reading: May 24, 2018 This morning I finished reading Everybody’s Son by Thrity Umrigar. I give it 5 stars […]

Notes on “South Pole Station” by Ashley Shelby

I am blogging my notes on books in order to participate in a reading challenge called When Are You Reading 2018. This is not a book review. My “notes” on books usually are more like rambling thoughts. I wrote this in my journal on May 17, 2018: South Pole Station by Ashley Shelby Fiction Finished […]

CFFC: 100 Years Old and Counting…

I am combining two photo challenges here: Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge with the theme of books or paper and Nancy Merrill’s A Photo A Week Challenge with the theme of over 100 years old. For several years, I have been working on a writing project, which is a book about my ancestors. Fortunately for me, […]

WPC: My Favorite Place

I have many “favorite places” in the world, too many to choose from, so I am restricting this post to my home town, Des Plaines, Illinois. My favorite place here is the public library. It is within walking distance so I usually walk there, sometimes three times a week or more than once a day! […]