I keep seeing ads for Jerusalem and Tel Aviv travel. I want to go. So I went back through my photos. It's been a few years or a little more than, but it will stick with me forever. It's a not to miss destination. It was as expected in many ways, completely unexpected in other … Continue reading 10 days in Israel
Remember when everyone last winter was knitting pussy hats? The same women who started that had another idea - what if we do something to welcome refugees here - and let them know some of welcome and want them here. Here's the key: all the blankets submitted should total the length of the proposed border … Continue reading Knitting squares for the Welcome Blanket
After wrapping up my first Whole30 I went all in on vacation with one of my favorite meals at a favorite restaurant. Not the spot in Charleston to go, but definitely worth it (and easier to get into than the most talked about), High Cotten has always done traditional Southern dishes particularly well. And they're … Continue reading An annual trip to High Cotten
As part of my memoir kick, I picked up The Sound of Gravel. The story of a girl and her siblings growing up in a fundamentalist Mormon compound in Mexico, Ruth Warnier spent her childhood moving between Mexico, California, and Texas. The house her family lived in on the Le Baron Compound in Mexico was … Continue reading The Sound of Gravel
I've been reading everything I've run across on The Handmaid's Tale. Everything. If you haven't read The Handmaid's Tale, now is the time to read it. It's hard to get through, and hard to reread. This dystopian future isn't too far off from where we are now and isn't actually out of the realm of … Continue reading What Maggie’s Reading: Handmaid’s Tale Edition
I've read a lot of books like Into This Air. Travel writing, memoirs, biographies, history. I haven't read a book like this in a long time, though. I know how it ends. It's like reading about the Titanic. Along the way you become attached to each person on the mountain, you forget it's not fiction. … Continue reading Into Thin Air
I was told what this book was about from a couple different friends. Neither one had it right, which I realized fairly quickly. I am so glad I kept reading, though. Told from the perspective of "the mothers", the elders of the church, The Mothers is the story of two girls, three families, and one … Continue reading The Mothers
The first Gaiman book I've finished, and it was a perfect way to dive in. The Ocean at the End of The Lane was worth the wait, and beautiful start to an author I know I'll read more from. Short enough to be mistaken for a children's book, but certainly not written as one, this … Continue reading The Ocean at The End of the Lane
I was worried at first starting Talking As Fast As I Can, thinking I'd spend the full book wishing it was about Lorelai instead of Lauren Graham. Turns out, Lauren and Lorelai have a lot in common. Including coffee. And her writing will keep you going, and keep you laughing, much the way Lorelai and Rory's … Continue reading Talking as fast as I can
