As I wrote this, it was National Library Week and my husband, Jack, was watching paint dry, um, I mean watching golf. This used to annoy me, but now it pleases me as it...
Author: Hollyn Chase
Hello, 2018. I am recovering from the flu; I am recovering from 2017. Some of you may have thought 2017 was a wonderful year. How nice for you. For me, it was a year...
I feel privileged to belong to a very special book club. Over twenty-three years we have learned a lot about each other by sharing our opinions about books. We have become truly book-bound. After...
Sometimes I just lie awake at night worrying. It’s hard for me to sleep when I think of all the taxes we pay. Income tax, property tax, sales tax, estate tax—the list just goes...
One of my favorite Steve Jobs anecdotes is the story of the iPod development. Apple Engineers kept bringing revised versions of the iPod to Jobs and he kept sending them back, insisting that it...
This happened in another time and another place. Or perhaps it never happened at all. Maybe it’s an alternate version of a different story; such is the way of fairy tales. In any case,...
Every January I take the time to look back at the best literature of the previous year. Last year, thanks to library audiobooks, I was able to consume 97 books, 86 of them novels....
Tomorrow I’m hosting our monthly book club lunch. I should be frantically cooking and cleaning, but I have the Latvian Stew on simmer and my book club friends will probably forgive me a bit...
I noticed the crumpled Kleenex on the sidewalk and kept walking. I didn’t pick it up because the idea of touching someone else’s used tissue was just too icky. And I sidestepped the dog feces—wondering...
This is the story of how I survived my husband’s 50th high school reunion. It is also a book review of my new favorite book: “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind,” by Yuval Noah...
