Guiding Light

And the star they had seen in the east guided them to Bethlehem.  It went ahead of them and stopped over the place where the child was.  Matthew 2:9
The autumn of 1973 was unusually foggy here in Michigan.  Every morning I awoke to a world blanketed in a dense, moist cloud of grey.  It was [...]

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Thankful

Although my neighborhood is sparkling with the reds and greens of Christmas, I’m hanging on to the colors of harvest for just a few more days.  The rich red of cranberries and the warmth of harvest gold…the spicy hues of pumpkin and chestnut…the savory aroma of sage.
It somethimes seems that Thanksgiving is all but forgotten [...]

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Teaser Tuesday (With A Twist)

So often in my reading I come upon passages which speak to my heart.  Even in books where you least expect it (like a cozy mystery, for instance) a line or paragraph jumps out, prompting a giant “aha!” or “oh,yes!”  So in a slight twist to the Teaser Tuesday meme, where readers are invited to [...]

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A Leak in the Heart

The matriarchs grow old, my models, women who were women when I was a child.  Who will be left to call me “Faygele” when they are no longer there?  With no one but me to recall my childhood, who will validate the memories?  They will carry pieces of me when they go.  How much of [...]

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The Sunday Salon: Austen-Itis

I’m getting ready for church this morning, and today will be the first Sunday we’ve attended all summer long.  My husband is reading in the service today, so I feel somewhat obligated to tag along.   If you’re sensing some reluctance on my part, you’d be right.   Church services and activities seem awfully ponderous to me [...]

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Giveaway Winner

Congratulations to Jennifer , a brand new book blogger!  She’s the winner of a copy of Mercury in Retrograde.  Pop over and visit her blog, and welcome her to this  special society of readers

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The Sunday Salon -Woman Reading in a Landscape

 Woman Reading in a Landscape, 1869, Jean Baptiste Camille Corot
 
When Corot painted this young woman so totally immersed in her book, little could he have imagined that another woman some 160 years later would happen across this photo while browsing on the Internet and be struck speechless by the resemblance to herself and her situation [...]

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The Sunday Salon -Blooming

 Flowers – they’re everywhere, in glorious profusion…the thought of them distracts me when I’m driving, when I’m walking, and when I’m shopping, pulling my eye away from the mundane fruits and vegetables to the burgeoning blossoms in the garden center attached to my favorite market.
I have two new garden areas at my house, one started [...]

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Bookstack Bounty

Today’s mail brought a bounty of books, courtesy of  Claire and her wonderful giveaway in honor of National Poetry Month (sponsored by Hachette Books).  I rarely win anything, much less such a wonderful bookstack, so I was thrilled beyond measure.
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson is particularly appropriate, considering my current read is Afternoons With [...]

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Monday Musing – Fiction or Non?

Do you read nonfiction regularly?  Do you read it in a different way or place than you read fiction?
 
Perfect timing for this question, as I’m reading a nonfiction book just now – A House in Fez, by Suzanna Clarke, who purchased an ancient, dilapidated riad  (home) in Morrocco, and undertook the process of restoring it to [...]

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