Perhaps it is my Danish ancestry, but I have always practiced to some extent the art of Hygge (pronounced HOO-GA), where you enjoy the small pleasures of life. My kids tease me about my love for candles and cozy blankets. I also enjoy a hot beverage with sweets while curled up with a good book…
I lived a sheltered childhood in a small, virtually all-white Wisconsin town in the 1960s. The tumult of the decade reached me only when my parents had the television turned to the CBS nightly news with Walter Cronkite. I was 11 when the country was torn apart by the assassinations of Martin Luther King and…
New Yorker Daniel Sullivan is on a quest to find his grandfather’s ashes that were left behind in Ireland when he meets Claudette, who will become the love of his life. He soon realizes that she is no ordinary woman. The eccentric, beautiful Claudette is hiding from her past in this remote part of the…
Oprah announced this week that her latest Book Club Selection is Glennon Doyle Melton’s Love Warrior. Melton is a popular blogger and philanthropist who blogs at Momastary and founded Together Rising, which runs events such as “Love Flash Mobs” raising money for women and children in need. Her essays have gone viral, including “Don’t Carpe…
The best and the brightest writers of our day are taking turns at writing novels inspired by the works of William Shakespeare. I was happy that the third book in the Hogarth Shakespeare project, launched by Crown Publishing, was created by one of my favorite authors, Anne Tyler. With Vinegar Girl, Tyler has re-imagined one…
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