For I don’t know how long I have been seeing this picture on Patheos when reading the several blogs I follow there. It looked interesting, ...

In my reading recently I came across this post, Patriarchy in Homeschool Culture by Samantha Fields, in which I found a quote from the boo...

As I wrote last week , I heard readings from her latest novel, The Cutting Season , by award winning author Attica Locke, and immediately b...

My husband and I went to the Shaw Center last night to see the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence given out. The award was give...

Since my husband and I are members of the Baton Rouge Area Foundation , we get invited to the annual Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary E...

Since my retirement I have made more use of the local library, checking out mostly murder mysteries but also the occasional non-fiction bo...

Every month the Foundation for Historical Louisiana meets at the Old Governor’s Mansion and hosts a speaker. Last night’s speaker was Chri...

Ah, fame and fortune. Okay, scratch the fortune part. The book that I wrote about last August is finally out, and I have my copy. The boo...

I first heard of Tania Head through the promos for the film The Woman Who Wasn’t There on the Investigation Discovery channel. After wat...

One of the side effects of my two weeks spent hanging out online with Methodists is that I heard frequently about the book You Lost Me: Wh...

I don’t remember where online I heard of the book, The Viral Storm: The Dawn of A New Pandemic Age , by Nathan Wolfe, but wherever I did, ...

Usually when I go to see a movie, it doesn’t occur to me that it may have been based on a book. I had heard of  The Help and Eat, Pray, L...

Okay, time to match the famous first lines listed in It Was A Dark and Stormy Night with their respective works, although I am sure anyone...

“Marley was dead, to begin with.” I am rereading A Christmas Carol . The beloved tale that encourages generosity, celebration, family feel...

Last week I got an email from an editor at a small publishing house asking to use some photographs of mine in a book. In exchange I get a ...