Not Buying a Book

This weekend I am not going to buy a book. That doesn’t seem like a big deal, does it? But to me it is. This is a conscious decision I’ve made, almost a resolution and there are reasons (yes, reasons…

Shelf Space

I remember being a teenager and having a boy in my room for the first time. It was exhilarating and nerve-wracking and we had to keep the door open, so what to do? My bedroom was so tiny that even…

The Past-Future of Publishing

I have this bad habit of not reading interesting articles at the time I’m in the magazine but instead ripping them out to come back to later. What this really means is that I now have enough pages of articles…

Reader Hell

I am currently in reader hell. I have a stack of about 12 books waiting to be read and a list of another 7 more that are waiting to be purchased, but I can’t get to them just yet. I…

Winter Nights

Hello, hello. What’s this? It’s been five days since my last blog post? Well, you know. January. I think that says it all. Winter. Snow. It’s very cold and walking the dog takes three times the effort to trudge through…