Category: Real Life Struggles

What are you reading?

Several months ago, one of my mother’s childhood friends died.  Margie was a librarian, teacher, writer, activist.  Although we hadn’t connected in many years, she remained a vivid part of my memory of childhood, very much the color Red.  At…

Get Your Novel Out of Sweatpants

If there’s one thing we can all agree on this year, it’s that sweatpants are pretty great. Maybe we didn’t appreciate them enough pre-pandemic. Maybe we had an old pair from college, tucked away for years, that we now realize…