No matter what some citizens of the world may think of the United States, it is still the last great hope for many people. There […]
Reading Culinary Memoirs — A Guilty Pleasure
How sinfully delicious it can be to read culinary memoirs. The stories are entertaining, often quite humorous and the descriptions of the food may be mouth watering but, luckily, not caloric. […]
Dolls and Robbery — What Could They Have in Common?
The Heights Library System has a local authors’ collection that is continually growing. Sometimes we stumble upon authors and find that they lived in or were associated […]
Nectar of the Gods
Galileo said that it is “sunlight, held together by water”, while Robert Louis Stevenson stated it was “bottled poetry” and Thomas Jefferson declared that it is “a necessity […]
It’s Never Time Not To Read
My husband says that I read everywhere, not that there’s anything wrong with that. I always have a book with me, just in case. So, […]
Fortune cookies…Japanese or Chinese in Origin?
Well, for any of you who’ve ever pondered this you are not alone. Jennifer 8. Lee (yes her middle name is 8 ) has written […]
Dogs rule!
I’m a dog person. Today, I am without a dog for the first time in more than 20 years after losing my dog (Lucy, a Bouvier) […]