The Rescuer by Dee Henderson

This book is one in a series of books by Dee Henderson. The main characters in this series are the O’Malley’s. This book centers on Stephen O’Malley. He has four sisters and two brothers. They all met at a children’s home and became family to each other. They even chose [...]

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Book Review – A Woman in Jerusalem by A. B. Yehoshua

This is a story about a woman and a man. The woman is a foreigner who has moved to Jerusalem and taken a job as a cleaning lady at a local bakery. She is killed by a sucide bomber in the marketplace. Her only ID is a check stub. The Human [...]

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Money Saving Ideas and Tips

In my meandurings on the World Wide Web, I occasionally come across an item that I feel may be of interest to you, my dear readers. Acting responsibly is so important. This is as true of our planet as in other aspects of our lives. If we don’t take care of our [...]

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Random Tidbits of Life

Friday was a good mail day! I had signed up for a free trial issue of Lucky Magazine sometime ago. I received a bill for further issues, but no magazine and then on Friday they arrived. I now have my trial issue and the first of issue of my subscription. It’s [...]

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Book Review – Stardust

I once read Little Women and then watched the movie with Winona Ryder. This was a huge mistake. The book was just too fresh on my mind and I couldn’t enjoy the movie. Every little difference and tiny nuance jumped at me and screamed. I didn’t want a repeat performance so [...]

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Something to Watch

We recently watched a couple of wonderful movies and I wanted to share them with you.

This is a wonderful movie about being different and being open to change. And it all happens in a Chocolate shop in France. It is a beautiful story and a beautiful movie. My husband loved it as [...]

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Book Review – Wonderful Wizard of Oz

After watching Tin Man on Monday I decided it was high time I read the Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Although, I had seen Judy Garland sing “Somehwere Over the Rainbow” more times than I can count, I had never read the book. I found it a wonderful story. It is quite different [...]

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Book Review – Chasing Shakespeares

This was an interesting book. It centered around a controversy concerning the true of authorship of Shakespeare’s work. Being a fan of Shakespeare, I found the book quite fascinating. The main character, Joe Roper, finds a letter supposedly written by Shakespeare claiming that he did not write the plays for which he [...]

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Bookstore Closing

I received some rather sad news today! Our local Waldenbooks is closing its doors. It is one of three business in our mall that are currently going out of business. I hate to see a good bookstore leave the area. It seems there are so few. Hubby and I did [...]

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Apron at Target

I found this apron at Target the other night and just couldn’t resist! Isn’t it pretty. I love the butterflies and birds. Click here to visit Target and find out more. Below is a close up of the apron so you can get a better look at the beautiful material from [...]

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