"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut," Stephen King, On
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Book Review: Woe Is I
I'm a nerd. You can ask anyone who knows me. I'm nerdy about a lot of things, but words are my primary geek
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Book Review: Just Let Me Lie Down: Necessary Terms for the Half-Insane Working Mom
If you are the mother of young children and have not read Kristin van Ogtrop's book, Just Let Me Lie Down: Necessary
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Book Review: The Middlesteins
Edie Middlestein doesn't remember a time when she wasn't obsessed with food. A smart, successful activist/lawyer,
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Book Review: Not My Daughter
Teenage pregnancy and knitting are unrelated. Yet, Barbara Delinsky attempts to weave them together in the story of a
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Book Review: Autobiography of an Execution
Murder is a terrible, ugly thing that should not happen. When murder, sometimes preceded by torturous acts, occurs to
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Making Jaycee’s Wish Come True
For 18 years, Jaycee Dugard wished on the moon. Some of Jaycee's wishes were the same as those of other young girls.
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A Little Peculiar Reading
I guess sometimes writers just get tired. This was my impression after reading Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar
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Book Review: Say This, NOT That to Your Professor
Laura was in the first class I ever taught as a college professor. Professors aren't supposed to have favorite students,
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