Archive for April, 2009

Wit & Wisdom Wednesday: The Man in the Glass

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

My grandfather passed away 25 years ago when I was just 3 years old. But while he was alive, he carried with him in his wallet a copy of the poem, The Man in the Glass. Since I was just three years old when he died, I don’t remember him very well, but the many [...]

My Bookshelf: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Monday, April 6th, 2009

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

Read: March 2009
Description:
Set in the aftermath of World War II, Juliet Ashton, a single, thirty-something writer, is looking for her next book subject. So when Dawsey Adams, a native of Guernsey, the British Island once occupied by the Nazis, finds Juliet’s name [...]

Wit & Wisdom Wednesday: Planning

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

Oops!  This weekly post is a day late.  But I have a good reason — my MacBook went haywire on me last night!  Basically, I was staring at a black screen with an ominous error message.  I spent almost two hours on the phone with Apple support. Fortunately, I was able to get back to [...]