(Photo by Elina Mark as part of the Estonian Science Photo Competition courtesy of Wikimedia Commons) So — you’ve grown your own produce or been […]
Just like children sleepin’
Perhaps a little known fact is that the Native Americans gave every full moon a name. Each month’s moon had a name associated with something […]
Eating from Your Own Backyard
(Photo of Comella Community Garden in Cleveland by Jeff Schuler, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons) One of the newest movements in cooking/eating is obtaining food locally — purchasing foodstuffs […]
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand? (Hopefully Not)
Oh, Major Pettigrew! What a fine literary character you are. You are charming, refined, witty, urbane, intelligent and kind. You speak your peace, but always within […]
Harvey Pekar lives on in graphic novels for kids
Harvey Pekar is dead, and we miss him a lot. A long time ago, he decided to write comics because he thought that comics “could […]
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
In the Neighborhood: The Search for Community on an American Street, One Sleepover at a Time by Peter Lovenheim is based on an interesting and unusual […]
The Innocent Found Guilty
After reading two books this month dealing with unjustly convicted and incarcerated Americans,(one set in Nicaragua and the other in California) I found it disturbing to find that […]
I Love My White Shoes
Walking a mile in someone’s shoes might be a hard thing to do, unless those shoes belong to Pete the Cat! Meet Pete. He’s been […]
More Than a Culinary & Travel Memoir
Paula Butturini’s culinary and travel memoir, Keeping the Feast: One Couple’s Story of Love, Food, and Healing in Italy, is much different from the norm. She […]
Tales of Real Medical Detection
So, I was perusing reviews the other day and came across a review of The Deadly Dinner Party and Other Medical Detective Stories by Jonathan A. […]