September 2020

Four years ago, many of my beloved university cohorts and I debated lists of the most attractive men in American and British literature. The conversations were intense and being the intelligent, humble ladies we are we, of course, thought our lists were far superior. Last week, we picked up the conversation again, this time debating […]

The Day the Crayons Quit  by Drew Daywalt illustrated by Oliver Jeffers“Hey Duncan, It’s me, Red Crayon. We need to talk.” It would be really difficult not to love this picture book narrated from the perspective of some of kids’ favorite tools–crayons. Each crayon writes a letter to their owner, Duncan, with humorous individual requests […]

by Agatha Christie “Women could be beautiful, but Hercule Poirot was not at all sure that he liked beauty in men. He would not have liked to be a beautiful young man himself, not that there had ever been the least chance of that. There was only one thing about his own appearance which really […]