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It is with a heavy heart that I give Steve Martin’s An Object of Beauty a thumbs down. I have thoroughly enjoyed his other books – Shopgirl and The Pleasure of ...

It’s impossible. Well, nearly. I’ve spent hours on internet searches. I had hoped to find many great sites to share, but I didn’t. Turns out, there are no cute,...

“If each one of us spent $64 a year on something actually made in America, we would together create 200,000 jobs.” -Diane Sawyer, ABC News. I’m working on it. T...

Well, I struck out on made-in-America website searches for dress-up clothes so I did a search for dress-up clothes and emailed the websites to find out where th...

It’s rare for me that a book lives up to its hype. I was concerned after the first few chapters which seemed more like short stories just barely connected by pe...

In a previous post, I mentioned my family’s Christmas tradition of donating to charity instead of buying gifts. An email is making the rounds this season that m...

I never do this. I like to buy my books used on Amazon.com for a penny.  So how did I end up paying full price for TWO new novels? I tagged along with my parent...

You may have noticed my lack of nanowrimo posts lately. That’s because there hasn’t been much to say. I realized that it was coming out very autobiographical. A...

I ended up participating in Black Friday after all – sort of. I made my first purchase online last night at Etsy.com, a site that came recommended by a blog rea...

I do not celebrate Black Friday. In fact, I try really hard not to set foot in a mall during the entire time between Thanksgiving and Christmas. For a few years...