Hi everyone, Sometime in the middle of 2016, I lost motivation to write on my blog. It's not Drew Barrymore's fault. In fact, I re...

Hi everyone, Debbie Reynolds with Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain Last Christmas, my sister surprised me with the book, Make ...

Hi everyone, The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles is one of my dad's favorite books. He gave me a hard-cover copy once ...

Hi everyone, When I saw last year that Elvis Costello was on a book tour in support his new memoir Unfaithful Music & Disappearing I...

Hi everyone, Of the more than 30 books that former President Jimmy Carter has written since leaving office, I started with his 537-page  W...

Hi everyone, House of Earth is a long-lost novel written by Woody Guthrie in 1947. While preparing to celebrate for the folk singer...

Hi everyone, When my sister saw Cary Elwes's memoir, As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride , on dis...

Hi everyone, A few weeks ago, I finished The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro, which I had picked up at a book signing event in March at ...

Hi everyone, I'd never heard of Ron Carter before I saw him at Bohemian Caverns a few years ago, but I could tell by just watching him...

Hi everyone, Thanks to my Monty-Python-viewing upbringing, John Cleese is one of my favorite comedians. (Thanks, Dad and PBS!) He can w...

Hi everyone, I bought John Waters's latest book, Carsick , this summer while he was book touring and stopped in D.C. for a conversat...

Hi everyone, Photo credit:  ©  Kat Villacorta A few weeks ago, I caught Cyndi Lauper on " Front and Center " on PBS. This ...

Hi everyone, Set in Florida in the early 1900s, Zora Neale Hurston's 1937 novel  Their Eyes Were Watching God   shares Janie Crawfor...

Hi everyone, It's been hard for me to get into another book since finishing Quiet . Spring weather has snapped me out of the winter ...

Hi everyone, When I was home for Thanksgiving, I found Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking by Susan C...

Hi everyone, My friend lent me  She's Come Undone , Wally Lamb's debut novel, months ago when we planned to see the author at a bo...

Hi everyone, As you might know, I've been practicing vinyasa yoga for years at Tranquil Space . I may always be a beginner- to mid-lev...