Joyfully Retired

We have three lucky winners who will soon be able to read Star Gazing by Linda Gillard soon. Their numbers came up when I went to random.org. And the winners are . . .
Kay of My Random Acts Of Reading
Esme of Chocolate and Croissants
Barbara of Views From The Countryside
They have all been notified. I thoroughly [...]

February was a pleasant month for reading. I liked everything I read and had a couple of good surprises. Here are my numbers:
Fiction: 3
Non-Fiction: 6
This is an exact duplicate of January. I just seem to love those non-fiction books.
Challenges completed: 0
Challenges started: 0
Favorite character I met during the month:
It’s a tie!!
I thoroughly enjoyed meeting [...]

by Alice Adams
This short story was told in the first person and the reader never knows her name. I call her Alice after the author’s name. It felt as if this really was Alice’s story.
When Alice was ten-years-old her mother, Margot, moved them both to North Carolina because the ouija board said to do it. [...]

Bloggiesta is billed as a fiesta for book bloggers who get together to accomplish some of the necessary work that needs to be done on their respective blogs. But do the words fiesta and work really go together?
In this case – yes. Although we are each alone at our computers, it was great knowing [...]

Friday was one of the longest blogging days I’ve put in. I was exhausted by the time I quit. I will confess to having a lot of fun doing all this technical stuff. I wouldn’t have been able to say that a year ago, that’s for sure. I can actually hit the HTML button without [...]

I’m taking a few days off from blog posting so I can work on my blog. I have a whopper of a list, probably more than I can get done in the time period. That’s how most of my Things To Do lists go. But I’ve found that if I don’t write it down, [...]