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Book Review: Ambush or Adore
Ambush or Adore by Gail Carriger My rating: 3 of 5 stars I highly recommend that you read Gail Carriger’s Finishing School series before reading the three stories that make up the Delightfully…
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Book Review: Booze Over Broadway
This volume should never be tucked away on a bookshelf or hidden in the shadows behind your personal home bar.
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Book Review: Pies Are Awesome
With Thanksgiving in the United States just around the corner, many of you may be debating what to bring along for the annual family gathering.
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Old Dog, New Tricks
We don't often go out for dinner, and keeping to our low-sodium, low-fat diets means most convenience foods never follow us home from the grocery story. But there's always going to be nights…
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Book Review: Enough Already
This book is a biography, a self-help guide, a cookbook, and yes, if you were enthralled with Edward Van Halen too, it’s their never-ending love story, too.
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Sixth and Lenora
The Sixth and Lenora Building wasn't always called that. When I worked there in 1989-1991, it was called the United Airlines Building.
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Book Review: Old-Time Country Wisdom and Lore for Hearth and Home
Wisdom and Lore, or terrifying examples of "What Could Possibly Go Wrong?"
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Book Review: The Keeper of Happy Endings
Where to even start writing this review??? Perhaps with my frustration that I can't give the book ten stars!
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Book Review: The Trouble with Half a Moon
A thirteen-year-old girl growing up in the projects faces all sorts of challenges. But even readers who are living in other home situations will find plenty of reasons to connect with Delilah -…
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Book Review: The Lighthouse Witches
If you are looking for a spooky, atmospheric Halloween-season read, you are in luck.
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Book Review: Draw Out (Aces High, Jokers Wild Book 5.5)
Fans of the "Aces High, Jokers Wild" series have asked to hear Janice’s story many times. In this novella, her early life is finally revealed.
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Seattle Stories: Turning 21
Do you remember what you did on your 21st birthday? I do. I just don't remember WHERE.
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Seattle Stories: The Granada
Hello Muddah, Hello Fadda, here I'm living at, The Granada.
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Seattle Stories: The Brasserie Pittsbourg
Playing tourist for a day in old Seattle.
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Seattle Stories: The Salmon and the Turtle
Who remembers when there was an apartment at the top of the Space Needle?
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Seattle Stories: Bordello Buddies
Meta levels of Seattle Vintage: Here's a fake-vintage "1877" photo taken of me and my besties at Sundance Photo Parlor in downtown Seattle, in 1977.
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Book Review: There Is No Lovely End
This is a ghost story, make no mistake about it. But these ghosts don't behave as you'd expect them to.
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Seattle Stories: The Dream Dress
Once upon a time, I found the perfect dress.
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Seattle Stories: Finishing School
Once upon a time, when I was 21, I went to Finishing School. I really did.
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Book Review: A Calculated Whisk
The tenth installment in the Vintage Kitchen Mystery series finds Jaymie Leighton determined to solve not just one, but two murders - and one of those was five years ago.
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Book Review: In the Shadow of the Fallen Towers
Much as my generation studied the events of December 7, 1941, when Pearl Harbor was attacked and we officially joined World War II, it's important that all Americans learn about the events of…
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Book Review: What Wonders Do You See… When You Dream?
Rituals can be comforting. They're useful to soothe a busy mind and remind a person that they are in a safe, familiar place. Children—who are still figuring out the world and their place…
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Book Review: Spellbreaker
Elsie Camden's world is a place where magic is real, and it is a commodity. If you're born a wizard, you're in the market for good quality spells of all sorts.
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Book Review: Blimey, I’m Knackered!
Blimey, I’m Knackered!: An American’s Survival Guide to British English by Marshall Hall My rating: 4 of 5 stars I love learning about other countries and cultures. Getting familiar with a country’s slang…
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Book Review: Lemon Drop Falls
Twelve-year-old Morgan's mom, a professional life-coach and creator of a life planning system, has unexpectedly died. Her last words to her oldest daughter were, "Keep them safe, Morgan. Be brave for them. Help…
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Book Release Announcement: Tia Lugo Speaks No Evil
Release Date: August 17, 2021. "Tia Lugo Speaks No Evil" Tia Lugo, an asthmatic thirteen-year-old Puerto Rican girl living in NYC, witnesses a murder late one night from her bedroom window. Terrified the…
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Book Review: Hunt It, Clean It, Cook It, Eat It
Hunt It, Clean It, Cook It, Eat It by Haley HeathmanMy rating: 5 of 5 stars “The Complete Field-to-Table Guide to Bagging More Game, Cleaning it Like a Pro, and Cooking Wild Game…
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Book Review: Princess Margaret
Princess Margaret by Helen Cathcart My rating: 5 of 5 stars Part of the six-book series, “The Royal House of Windsor”, Princess Margaret was penned in 1974 by the mysterious and reclusive Helen…
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Cassowaries, Chickens, and the Apocalypse: An Interview with “Morning Dew” Author Andrew McCurdy
“Life’s become pretty stable since the apocalypse. Grief’s given way to survival. Routines have been established. Farming, rationing, and scavenging skills have been perfected. Not much changes—until you unearth a mysterious black hole,…
