October is National Cookbook Month – Get Cooking!
It’s fall and in most regions it’s beginning to get a little chilly in the evenings. Sweaters are starting to come out of the mothballs they’ve been resting in all summer long, blankets are being...
View ArticleForget Rudolph — A Holiday Book With Flying Polar Bears!
It’s flu season and Santa’s reindeer have come down with noses redder than Rudolph’s. With temperatures all on the rise, the reindeer all have been sidelined for Santa’s Christmas Eve ride. Now what?...
View ArticleTwo Decades Later, Another Brilliant Memoir From Mitch Albom
The first book I ever read by Mitch Albom was Tuesdays With Morrie, which spent four straight years at the top of the New York Times list and has since become the bestselling memoir of all time. A...
View ArticleThe Powerful Woman Behind Winston Churchill
With the publication of Lady Clementine (Sourcebooks Landmark), Marie Benedict, New York Times bestselling author of The Other Woman in the Room, (read our review here) provides readers a story so...
View ArticleRachel Maddow: Traversing the Political Divide
Before stardom hit, Rachel Maddow had lots of growing up — and coming out — to do. Lisa Rogak’s well-researched Rachel Maddow: A Biography (Thomas Dunne Books) details Maddow’s life from growing up in...
View ArticleReflecting on the Power of Spirituality in “Dream Like Jesus”
Mainstream congregations are in trouble. Attendance is in decline and many churches are struggling to survive. Formal religious practice is no longer the centerpiece of American life. Too many people...
View Article“Original Politics:” An Exploration of Native American Influence on the...
There is a Cree Indian proverb that says: “Only when the last tree has been cut down, the last fish been caught and the last stream poisoned, will we realize we cannot eat money.” These words are the...
View ArticleIn “GOTCHA!,” Trump Rages, the World Tilts, and Life Goes On
Toxic power; a delusional president; despicable characters; lies, sex and audiotapes; and a basket overflowing with deplorables. Now throw in hydroxychloroquine as a cure for COVID-19 — just because we...
View ArticleA Celebration of Life: She Survived to Not Only Tell Her Story, But to Help...
“There’s no hope in that room,” Bonnie Addario told her husband when he asked how her speaking event went at a cancer support group in a major medical center in Northern California. She will never...
View Article“Trump You”: Student Trumps Trump and Wins $25 Million Settlement!
“The story of Trump University is a gripping tale of ego and deceit, and it exposes the con man who became president. And no one can tell it better than Cohen.” — David Corn —∞— Silicon Valley...
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