The Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Italy was over the top! I love watching live orchestras and this one had 5 string basses. 🙂 And the
Vegetable garden overtaken by poppies, nasturitiums, cosmos and zucchini plants Clearly this garden needs tools and more plants. 🙂 I’ve never grown vegetables in Germany–until
Whack! The little girl smacked her tiny rainbow umbrella down on the restaurant’s marble table with an unexpectedly loud crack. No one was hurt; nothing
This 1,000 year old linden tree has such a perfect shape from the outside. A really old tree gives me a new perspective on life
Sometimes the only thing that helps stuck projects . . .is walking around it. Am I the only one who has to move to get
Today, I’m over at The Winged Pen’s Master Your Craft blog post series. What–you ask–is Master Your Craft? Each Wednesday, the Winged Pen discusses prewriting
Someday, Someday, Maybe by Lauren Graham is a charming and funny story of a young woman pursuing an artistic dream. I usually write about middle
Thick as Thieves came out in 2017 (Yay! I read it twice in a row!) and I’ve been enjoying re-reading Megan Whalen Turner’s The Queen’s
Shady arcade along the Rue de Rivoli that houses two English language bookstores in Paris. © Laurel Decher, 2017. For All in Paris Who Read
I really enjoyed this book! The gutsy girl artist, Emelin, is appealing. Her mysterious friend Wolf is also intriguing. The story is easy-peasy accessible and
Construction machines are wasted without a little child to sit in a lawn chair and appreciate the show. This last week, I kept a list
The Book Club for Kids episode is about Gary D. Schmidt’s Orbiting Jupiter. Note: I’ve read Orbiting Jupiter and liked it AND I think you
