When I read on Publishers Lunch yesterday that the B. Dalton Booksellers in Laredo, TX was closing, thereby giving that town of a quarter-million people the piteous distinction of being the largest city in the nation without a single bookseller, I was...

Thank you for all the kind comments about my hair. Today is the day that Emma gets her haircut. Her mom is pulling her out of school because the stylist didn't have any other openings before Christmas, so I am eagerly awaiting the after-school...

This past summer my boys were in swim team with the daughter of a good friend of mine, who is the same age as my younger son (now eight). We'll call her Emma (which is, in fact, her name). Well quite regularly after swim team, we'd all stay to swim,...

I gotta admit to being very impressed with the USA network--they have come up with some quite imaginative, very entertaining new shows, several of which are high on my list of favorites. Currently being DVR'd at my house... Psych (an uber-observant...

It's snowing! Way down here near the Gulf of Mexico that's pretty rare, and I'm excited! I just hope there is a little accumulation for when the boys get out of school... I wish we had our tree up, and I wish I was playing some festive Christmas...