A Quick Trip (Back) to Rome. . .

A busy weekend with grandkids sleeping over, here, but first I thought you and I could wander together through the Protestant Cemetery in Rome. Such a beautiful quiet corner of the city, a place to recharge. . . Click through to see what I mean. . .

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Simplest Outfit Ever and a Month’s Worth of Good Books

This is the first Reading Post in many years that I’ve published for the first (and only) time right on my main (now my only) blog. Past experience has shown me that many of you…

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September Reading: So Much Goodness!

Rainy and windy here in Vancouver today. Perfect weather for curling up with a book, and I have a few good candidates (currently reading Iza’s Ballad by Margo Szabó and Marc E. Agronin’s The End of…

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Bourgeois Marriage to Serial Murder — My Reading Has Range!

I’ve been doing very well with Holds I’ve placed on books from the Vancouver Public Library. A bit too well, really, and I’m currently reading madly through a Pico Iyer travel memoir (five reading days…

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Six Titles Near the End of the Year. . . .

Before I left for Paris earlier this month, I had caught up my Reading Journal and meant to share photos of those pages with you. Didn’t happen, so now I’m going to post two or…

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