This & That

A Girl Named Zippy by Haven Kimmel -- The subtitle is 'Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana' and it was a cute book....

A few days before Christmas, it was gray and rainy. I am grateful for rain because I know it's need...

I had an interesting talk with a friend yesterday.  He and his cousin are both Syrians living in Germany, and while visiting together last w...

Someone shared these on Facebook from a book she was reading.  I liked them, and wanted to keep them somewhere easy to find.

Wow, five fiction books this month. I remember a few years ago when I read hardly any fiction the entire year. I used to almost only read...

Way back when it was still warm outside, we moved a few miles away from our previous house.  I sometimes wish it were a more drastic move to...

Try to Remember by Iris Gomez -- the story of a teenage Colombian girl growing up in an immigrant family in Miami; I found this at a bo...