Like a lot of people, I have been spending quite a lot of time reading. First, it was my way of diverting attention away from the growing pandemic and the constant media alerts on my phone. Then, reading slowly became a habit, again. I used to like reading when I used to have more free …
I think I’ll indulge in Maria Semple’s book, Today Will Be Different, during the Christmas holidays. What’s better than light, relatively mindless reading during the holidays, especially a comic novel from someone who used to write for TV shows like Mad About You and Arrested Development? The book’s title is pretty much every mother’s mantra as …
With temperatures cooling off a bit and days getting a bit shorter everyday, I have been on the lookout for books to add to my fall/winter reading list. It’s so hard for me to settle down and read a book these days. Most of the time, I get interrupted and other times. I just fall …
Snapshots of my girls, a week at a time, in 2015 Ines – Had her “almost end-of-year” for Girl Scouts party last week at a local spa that specializes in hosting little girls’ parties. She was delighted by her bright green nails and sideways braids. Did not want to wash her hair for a day …
Snapshots of my girls, a week at a time, in 2015 Chiara – She made a net profit of $70 selling crêpes yesterday at her school’s TREPs event, a wonderful way in which grade-school children learn how to launch their own businesses. She worked side-by-side with her dad yesterday — he warmed-up our pre-cooked crêpes …
It was not until I was much older that I realized how much aesthetics and architecture impacted me. It’s probably true for most of us. I also noticed as I got older how I hate clutter and the accumulation of too many things (that is, except shoes and books) and how much I appreciate beauty …
As I am getting ready for the girls’ last day of school and the long days of summer ahead of us, I’ve also been actively researching what books to read this summer with the girls and for myself. The thing is that I got to get my e-book purchases now before we go to France …
It is not often that an author crosses genres successfully. But in the case of Julia Alvarez, one of my favorite authors, she had done so successfully and seamlessly. I first read her book, “How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents,” many, many years ago. The book, a story of the how the four …