Some just out-wit, out-smart, out talk others, out perform, and some “sit quiet and refuse to be agreeable.” Many just don’t give into self-doubt and second-guessing and proceed through life with verve and conviction. I would have loved to met them all! Each little vignette is filled with wit and insight and such fun to …
I LOVE this book! Karen Karbo is at her feisty best as she relates the “difficult” natures of her subjects. (The author of Eloise? Who knew?) –Cheryl McKeon, former bookseller at Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park, WA; currently the manager of Book Passage Ferry Building in San Francisco, CA Seattle area folks: Learn …
by Cila Warncke for frugalportland.com In an era where you can read yourself blind online without spending a penny, buying books is an act of enlightened frugality. Magazines and newspapers get tossed; websites morph. Books stick around. What’s more, books slow us down. There are no hyperlinks or banner ads, nothing to whisk our mind into the …
Writing groups. Some of us love them. Some of us hate them. I would never have completed my novel, The Gods of Second Chances, without having collaborated with fellow writers almost every week. Our group sets the expectation for me to bring pages. Spot on critiques led to multiple revisions of my manuscript. But while …
“I enjoyed this personalized biography of Georgia O’Keeffe, which is more an examination of the artist as outsider than of her outsider art. Told in an entertaining style, the book takes us back to the making of this icon and gives us a glimpse of just how difficult it was for O’Keeffe to forge her …
