Be You Blithe and Bonny

We decided in the past few days to give my mom a break from endless rounds of Perry Mason and Murder, She Wrote episodes (her favorites) a...

I got to thinking last time I read Jane Austen’s Emma that it made a pretty good mystery story, with clues everywhere embedded, and Emma po...

This may sound odd, but having just finished Bob Woodward’s book Fear: Trump in the White House, I found myself with a better opinion of Tr...

My husband asked me this morning why my family ended up in the Western United States. His ancestors’ motivation was easy to pinpoint: they a...

I read a comment recently that Daphne du Maurier’s classic gothic horror story Rebecca is the same story as Jane Eyre. So I had to think ab...

I just finished reading an anthology of short stories called Jane Austen Made Me Do It , edited by Laurel Ann Nattress and published back in...