Deep Thoughts of a Common Household Mom

First lines for October, from two fiction and five nonfiction.   Includes one book of children’s lit, featuring physical disabilities.  Seve...

  This post is brought to you jointly by the federal government shutdown and the pre-election low that comes for me every time. The federal ...

This month, the Marquis de Chastellux appeared, for the second time in my life, in a book I am reading called Enough is Enuf , on the exciti...