The Ramblings: Loving Life
This is the second time I've written this month's Ramblings. As I wrote my first version I realized my Ramblings have a pattern - they've sort of turned in to rants. While there Photo Credit are plenty of things in life that annoy me - snow storms on [...]
Edit Me: A Good Coach Knows the Sport
Photo Credit In 1989 and 1990 Chuck Daly led the Detroit Pistons to back-to-back NBA championships. In 1997 Scotty Bowman coached the Detroit Red Wings to their first Stanley Cup win in forty-two years. It wasn't the first season coaching for either man. They didn't just wake up [...]
An Author’s Journey: by Mary Annslee Urban
Being an author of fiction has been a wonderful and sometimes frustrating pursuit in my life. On any given day my emotions may swing from overjoyed to overly discouraged and back again. After hours of tweaking a chapter I sometimes sit back, tap my chin and think, “I can’t believe [...]
Reading Reviews: Bird by Birdy by Ann Lamott
"Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he'd had three months to write. It was due the next day. Photo Credit We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and [...]
Book Review (and Giveaway!): The Heiress of Winterwood by Sarah E. Ladd
Amelia Barrett, heiress to an estate nestled in the English moors, defies family expectations and promises to raise her dying friend’s baby. She'll risk everything to keep her word—even to the point of proposing to the child’s father—a sea captain she’s never met. When the child vanishes with little more [...]