Be You Blithe and Bonny

All the Light We Cannot See Because all of my friends who have read this have loved the book, I wanted to love the book too. But the furth...

I thought Aunt May was the steady one, but I got to looking at her life today, and oh boy! She went through a lot. Her life was a roller coa...

Had I just finished reading the last Monk book? I asked myself. There were so many distant loose threads tied up in this novel that this cou...

My family and I like to go to Cannon Beach. We have been going there for generations. Here is a photograph taken in July 1928 of my dad, F...

I just read Daniel Mendelsohn’s An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic, published in September 2017. I am reading it again, because it wa...

In 1942 when Lillie and Lloyd Read lived in Portland, Oregon, near Mt. Scott Park, their son Carl and his wife, Dorothy, were given a pig th...