Most avid readers have that never-ending list of classics in the back of their head that fits the description, “I know I need to read that someday just to say I’ve read it.”
Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer was one such book for me. It is a memoir of part of the time he spent in Paris in the 1930′s. It was immediately banned due to its graphic content, and it spawned a trial it the US that would influence the future of banned books in America. Words associated with …

…but that isn’t true.

I recently finished Tropic of Cancer, but it definitely deserves it’s on post, so I’ll write about it later this week. Get ready…

I haven’t talked much about ‘books on tape’ but due to a 30 minute commute to work twice a day, they really help the ride go by. There are two I’ve listened to recently.

First, Middlemarch by George Eliot. I appreciate a good character as well as anyone, but seriously? Middlemarch is nothing but characters. No plot. Not even great descriptions of setting as the …

What good is having a professional photographer as a husband if you can’t occasionally get him to take a personal picture? My thoughts exactly!
So, in honor of all women, not just the ones who have carried living beings in their womb, a special post about the women in my life.
First, my mom. Aside from the very literal reasons, this blog would not exist without this woman.

My mom gave me her love for the written word. I learned to read sitting on her lap taking a part in Macbeth during “family …

First, my apologies to my loyal followers for this length of silence. I could give you a list of excuses, but they boil down to: work, sick, work.

Now on to the good stuff.

The Birth House was an entertaining, quick read. Basically I finished it in three sittings over the weekend. Yeah, that quick.

Set in Scots Bay, Nova Scotia, at the brink of the women’s suffrage movement, the novel centers on a young girl – Dora Rare – with the “gift” of midwifery. Through her story, the reader catches a …