I am posting this video as inspiration to any 50+ year old woman who is feeling less confident about herself as she grows older. I have been fascinated by this woman who became a model at or near the age of 50, with her mane of gray hair and her supermodel bone structu...

One journalist's joyous trip to Shiraz, Iran. [Please note that some journalists have not had the same experience}. I had some of the same wondrous experiences of Iran during the summer of 1978, but did not possess such a gorgeous accent or set of brilliant white teeth...

A weekend binge read (I do that often)! I loved this novel. I felt so connected with all of the characters, except one (read it and you will see, which one I mean -- which character left and never returned). Set in the 1970s through 2017, the novel chronicles the lives...

Love Kylie and her videos. My next trip, to Italy.

I picked up this novel (well, downloaded it onto my Kindle Paperwhite) because it was listed as a best book of June 2019. I finished it in several hours while sitting in a striped beach chair in the Atlantic, trying to stay cool from the day's searing heat, slathered w...

I didn't want to start this review by refuting the one I just read on Amazon (but I will). The Amazon review was very critical; it accused the author of lying or exaggerating based on the author's descriptions of dresses and her father's old fashioned way of speaking,...

Almost done with this wonderful novel, my month to profile books about child abandonment and immigrants. Some lawful, some not. The tragedy that occurred. A young boy abandoned by his mother, but a mother deported without him knowing it. Look for my review soon!

I was absolutely blown away by this book. It was so moving to me as a parent. What a graceful, melodic writer is Jayson Greene. I just finished reading this memoir (just took a day) and I'm wanting to google Jayson Greene, Stacy, and Harrison Greene to see if they are...

If you want to read a dark novel with tons of twists and turns in a similar vein as Gone Girl, Ohio is the book for you. Of course I picked it for its title and the cover. It takes place during one night in 2013, when a group of high school "friends" make a trip back h...

With the harsh truth of familial abandonment heart-brokenly played out on the pages of the novel, Where the Crawdads Sing, ever still fresh in my mind's eye since I read it, this is wonderful regular advice to parents about how not to treat your adult child, from Psych...