Just Someone Ordinary, Searching For That "Little Extra."
My husband was away on a work trip for his birthday and I wanted to make sure than I planned for some quality time together upon returning home. His favorite movie of all time is “Top Gun” so I did a little research on themed items that I could purchase for a low- key but […]
Read MoreMy Uncle is my designated family reading buddy. At 65, he is a real pop-culture marvel and I am always in awe of his “cool factor.” He’s on level 1800 on Candy Crush, watched GOT and Schitt’s Creek twice before I even started binging, knows every Broadway Show cast and director line-up, and yelled at […]
Read MoreI am not usually one to read mystery books or scary, suspenseful thrillers- I preferred ‘The Boxcar Children’ and Judy Blume to Nancy Drew and ‘Goosebumps’ growing up, and those preferences have stayed with me. I remember opening up Stephen King’s “Desperation” at the young age of 11, reading the first chapter, and having nightmares […]
Read More“On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous,” by Ocean Vuong, has been on the top of my TBR list for quite some time for trivial reasons: mainly for the beautiful cover and the Instagram hype. I was not familiar with the author’s name and did little research before opening to the first page; I was just so […]
Read MoreI’ve been on a bit of a reading hiatus, which is strange because usually when I travel, I take a book everywhere, wind down with it each night I’m on vacation. But the last month has been spent riding up and down the East Coast, back and forth from Virginia to Connecticut, spending time with […]
Read MoreWe woke up before the sun rose on Sunday morning, faint traces of dawn beckoning us awake. I rubbed my eyes and set my body to autopilot, climbing out of bed and dragging on the clothes that I had set out the night before. My husband and I were meeting some friends for a day […]
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