Flash From The Past

As some of you know, I have been sick all weekend. Thanks for all of your well wishes. I do believe the fever has broken so that’s good. Just in time to go back to work! Grrr. I spent the entire weekend eating, reading, watching TV and napping and not necessarily in that order. This [...]

The Sunday Salon: January 11, 2009

My entire day is centered around the premier of 24 (Season 7) that begins tonight at 8pm PST. I love Kiefer Sutherland. I love it when he goes nuts and runs all over heck to save the world. I was especially entertained when the City of Santa Clarita was nuked a couple of seasons back [...]

Guilty Pleasure

I have to make a confession. I have been watching Legally Blonde The Musical: The Search For Elle Woods on MTV. I recorded it so that my son could see the audition process, but after the first show I was hooked. I know this post is not really book related… but there are a series [...]

Sizzling.. In a Good Way

It’s 110 degrees in So. California right now. I keep having flashbacks to that Twilight Zone episode titled The Midnight Sun, where the sun is getting closer and closer and everyone is in dire need of water. It’s enough to keep you indoors for sure! For those lucky folks that are not at work right [...]

The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, by Kim Edwards

I just finished The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, by Kim Edwards. A doctor, unable to get his wife to a hospital during a very bad snow storm ends up delivering his own twins. The doctor realizes that one twin has Downs and the other baby appears to be normal. He gives the baby to his nurse [...]