My Name Is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok was one of my favorite books of 2022 and I suspect it will be one of those books that I cherish and re-read many times in the future, the sort of book that speaks to the heart, that changes you. It’s the...
I woke up this morning with a phrase from my dream burning in my mind and needing to be written down: You shall plant bulbs. And suddenly, like an explosion, a whole bunch of things I’ve been pondering for a while have come together at once...
At long last, I’m getting around to sharing my thoughts about the rest of my favorite books from last year. These thoughts still feel kind of rough, but I want to get this off my plate and move on to talking about this year’s books. 1...
This has been a hard year for my husband and his siblings. In September their dad died suddenly and unexpectedly. He went to the ER because he was in some pain, and then the next day he suddenly took a turn for the worse and then… his heart...
Clearly my dream of daily posting died pretty quickly. Defeated by Epiphany cooking and baking and present wrapping. I stayed up too late wrapping presents and I’m still catching up on the sleep deficit. It was a good weekend, though. The boys...
Today was another busy full day. Everything was compressed because I had to take Bella to the dentist at 4pm to get a cavity filled. Poor thing, it was a big cavity and she was kind of traumatized. Then we had to have an early dinner because Bella...
I didn’t get a chance to write at lunch today. I slept in late and spent the entire morning that was left catching up on schoolwork with the kids. Then after a quick lunch we watched the first two episodes of the second season of Star Wars Bad...
Lucia, my baby, is 10 today. I can hardly believe it. We are definitely in a different stage of family life now, with three teenagers and two pre-teens and no children with single-digit ages. Last night we went out for an anticipatory birthday...
At the end of 2022, but before Christmas, Bella and Sophie and I flew to Texas. I haven’t been home to Austin in five years, not since my parents’ 50th anniversary party in December 2017. And once again we were’t just going on a...
Notable Reads– I like that better than a favorite books or top ten list. Just, these are the books I read that I most want to talk about and recommend to people. I’m not going to try to rank these, and I’m lumping books in series...