Summer may not officially begin for another three weeks, but I am thinking of the start of summer as June 1st. Our son is home from college. I submit my grades tomorrow. Let the long, languid days of sunny reading and writing begin. This summer I’m especially excited, because I am slipping into it with …
Happy Monday, everyone! What are your plans for this week? Is it obvious that I woke up in a positive mood? I think I know the reason. Yesterday afternoon I continued my re-reading of Barbara Sher’s Refuse to Choose!, and when I woke up this morning, I thought about one of her exercises early in …
Today I finished reading Solomon’s Oak, a beautiful novel by Jo-Ann Mapson. Solomon’s Oak introduces us to three characters who have each suffered loss: Glory, a recent widow struggling to keep her California farm; Juniper, a foster teen haunted by a family tragedy; and Joseph, a former police officer who bears the scars of a …
I haven’t been online much in the past couple of days because of a cold that makes my itchy eyes balk at the sight of a computer screen. However, I’ve been using some of this time, appropriately enough, to start reading The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, by Nicholas Carr. It’s …
Congratulations to Kim for winning a free copy of Christine Fonseca’s 101 Success Secrets for Gifted Kids! To choose the winner, I used a random list generator at random.org. Thank you to everyone who commented on Christine’s interview.