Homemade Lemon Cake

I read this for a Goodreads challeng--I picked it because I had just read a trio of Grisham books that came much later than this one (which...

A little over a year ago China quietly ended its three decades of international adoptions. This cessation came almost a decade after China—...

This is the movie of the year so far. It opens with the kind of momentum usually reserved for the climax of an action film and barely slows...

This was recommended by Jacqueline Woodson, author of Brown Girl Dreaming, and of course also by the National Book Award as well. It is abo...

We have been here before, and apparently we the people are easily misled, and we will be here again. During the COVID pandemic I was surpri...

Because it seems so relavent. And also because whatever comes out of the president's mouth is the opposite of the truth--almost without...

. We are exercising our first amendment right to free speech. I am a Daughter of the American Revolution, both sides of my family were in...

An outspoken advocate for gun ownership was shot and killed at a speaking event on September 11th. Would he be okay with that? In 2023, fol...

Spoiler alert--if you have been paying attention at all, there is nothing in here that is ground breaking. Shocking, yes. The depth of th...

It is unacceptable. Our neighbors are being taken and we don't know where they are being taken. As we start our 249th year as a countr...

This is a tragedy in the form of a memoir. Alexei Navalny knew how it would end: “I’ll spend the rest of my life in prison and die here.” H...

First things first. Since we all watched Conclave, we have some idea of the politics that were at work in the conclave that took place this...

This is the mantra that flooded X after the 2024 election, and while I hate almost everything about it, the thing I love is that it makes i...

Happy Halloween! An estimated 67% of Americans will give out candy today, according to the National Retail Federation. Tomorrow is the day...

September 11th, 2001 We were like everyone else--maybe more aware because we were not at work--glued to the television, watching planes hi...

This book follows five families from five different parts of the country addressing the trials and tribulations associated with disappointm...

This is a sweeping, all-inclusive investigative reporter style book about Central America, immigration, and the United States. While polit...

I think when all is said and done that this is a better storty than it is a movie. Here's the story--a southern gentleman who has a str...

This is yet another look at the systemic racism in the United States--the book focuses on the 1940 census for some in-depth reporting but h...

I came of age in what was apparently a golden age of women being near equal citizens to men in the United States. The Supreme Court, illig...