One of my favorite books - AND movies! For me, the scene I can't unsee is the good neighbor hauled away by the Nazis and how powerless the German civilians were to stop them. Your review makes me want

Good for you! In looking up the CDS, I came across an item I bought several years ago at a friend's urging: DMSO 8 oz. Glass Bottle Non-diluted 99.995% Pure Low Odor Pharma Grade Liquid Dimethyl Sulfoxide

I love your sense of humor! People often ask me how I stay so trim, vibrant, and energetic at the advanced age of 62. Well, they don’t, but they should. and So you can see I am a paragon of virtue and

Ohhhhh no I was hoping for a happy ending. This is excruciating! And oh man do I ever do that: hide something in a safe place, which becomes hidden from my memory. Or a clever new password: I'll never

Beautiful, moving, visceral writing - how I wish it were fiction, spun straight from the imagination, not real life. Your loss is so keen and so profound. We've heard for years that time heals all wounds.

This is what I do not miss: my being hesitant to express an opinion that is contrary to the opinion of most of the other people in a room. Raise your voice! YES!! I need this -- and yes, you are a role

I just finished reading the ebook (ARC, Advance Reader Copy), and I gotta warn, the ending is unexpected ... I was not ok with it.... and for me there was way too much detail about gourmet cooking. Expensive

That is hilarious!!! Also, I need to find this: a series I am currently bingeing, titled "High Potential."

This post (and I post I wrote way back when, about my mom and her dad's goulash) came to mind when I read about a Simon and Schuster novel coming out soon: Set in the bustling world of New York restaurants

They are as eager to get back to their lives as I am to keep them in mine. You nailed it!!!!!

A graceful, contemplative volume, Camera Lucida was first published in 1979. Commenting on artists such as Avedon, Clifford, Mapplethorpe, and Nadar, Roland Barthes presents photography as being outside

Oops, that comment above got truncated. "Sorry for going on about ME," I was saying... Your posts and comments remind me that I need to hang out here more often!!! (And just keep reminding myself

Thank you @goldenoakfarm and @riverflows for sharing the sense of loss, the impact of burying a loved one. Sorry to have gone on about *me me me me .... grateful that you told us how hard it is to go on.

"How hard it was for me to function" after the loss of a loved one - Maybe if I'd found a therapist, I'd have been "validated" (excused?) for shutting down. Two sisters, and our father,

Oh I love this! What makes me sad? Eric asked in another of his Monday memoir installments. I couldn’t think of anything, other than a loved ones dying, that makes me truly sad. This Monday morning I

I have no idea how I managed to bathe poor Tommy the ginger tom. I know only that he was so decrepit, so near to death, he LET ME douse him in warm water and suds him with Irish Spring. The fleas dropped

Dance in the kitchen, play the ukelele, summon some friends - sounds like a plan! Joy Joy Joy!

Irish Spring - a bar of this soap kills fleas instantly! Put to the test on a cat who had fleas crawling all over him. Dusted my carpets with silicon or diatomateous earth many times, then vacuumed

You aunt was not a spinster aunt, like mine - just childless - I got that wrong. Two husbands? How did I not see (or remember) that! Is it just last-century families, or certain countries and cultures,

No, no, not "much better" than your poems - it's precisely because yours are THAT GOOD that I thought of them!!! This silencing of the Muse, this concerns me. Is it part of turning 60 (or more)?