Yesterday (Sunday) and we’re wondering what to do since the forecast is predicting rain (which it DIDN’T until late that night). So Roy and I take his youngest daughter and take off to the Books-a-Million for a little browsing and cups of Caramel flavored coffee.
Roy looked over a lot of the photography books, while [...]

A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
I’ve read this book three times. Jane Smiley has such a way with words and creates such a clear and vivid world, that everyone who reads her work wants to become a writer. Such passages as:
In spite of the price of gasoline, we took a lot of rides that year, [...]

Roy and I love our Netflix account.  The last movie that arrived in our mailbox was The Curious Case of Benjamin Button starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett. I liked it but I think Roy was a little bored by it.  It’s true, it did creep along rather slowly.  But I have a sneaking suspicion [...]