The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society: A Novel by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows Ok- so as much as I've been enjoying planning events and everything else that goes along with being the MOH in two weddings (see photos from my sister's wedding last weekend), I have to admit it has been really stressful too. And while I wouldn't ... // Keep reading...

Kate has spent the last year basically asleep after she retreated deep inside her mind following a tragic event. On the morning she "wakes up," her daughter finds a postcard addressed to Kate from years ago that she'd never received from her great aunt Eby. The postcard was from Lost Lake, the land Eby and husband turned into a lakeside getaway, ... // Keep reading...

The Good Luck of Right Now by Matthew Quick c/o HarperCollins Publishers "Whenever something bad happens to us... something good happens- often to someone else. And that's The Good Luck of Right Now." (p153) There seems to be a theme brewing for 2014, at least for me, slowly evincing itself in what I've read these past two months- ... // Keep reading...

photo of The Vinegar Tasters from Wikipedia Above: In The Vinegar Tasters, Lao-tse is smiling while tasting the vinegar (an allegory for the Elixir of Life) because to him, life is sweet. Coming from someone who is extremely Type A, complete with anxiety, high stress levels, and a tendency to become overwhelmed quite frequently, The Tao of Pooh ... // Keep reading...