Welcome

Hi! My name is Margot. My blog is about the things I love to do. That could be what I'm reading, places we visit, my family, food, or whatever else is happening. I hope you'll stay and visit a while. Contact me by email: joyfullyretired (at) gmail (dot) com.

What I’m Reading

Gods In Alabama

Sizzle

Poems by Emily Dickinson

Read-A-Longs

Clarissa

My Book Rating System

A = Excellent in every way
B = Very good story
C  = Good/Average
D = Poor
F = So Bad I couldn't finish it

Archives

Book Review: Bed of Roses

by Nora Roberts Berkley Books, 2009 My Rating: B+ This is Book Two in the Bride Quartet. My review of Book One is here. Book Three, Savor the Moment, is coming next week and I wanted to finish this one before number three arrived. It’s not absolutely necessary to read them in order, but it [...]

Literary Road Trip in Kansas

A Literary Road Trip is a chance for me to look closely at the authors who claim Kansas as home. [For why I chose Kansas, visit this blog post.] There are so many wonderful authors from the state that it makes me proud to feature them. The name Max McCoy comes up quite often around [...]

Meet Grant Williams – A Kansas Author

Last week I had the pleasure of having lunch with a real live Kansas author, Grant Williams. Our friends, Steve and Marjorie Swaim introduced Jay and I to Grant and his wife Bernice. What fun we had, sitting there long after the restaurant’s patrons were gone. Grant is one of those people who has a [...]

A Road Trip in Kansas with William Inge

This stop on the Literary Road Trip is taking us to Independence, Kansas. Back in the 1920′s Independence was said to have more millionaires per capita than any other city in the country. That fact is important because it meant the town had many more cultural events than a normal town. Big name shows and [...]

Literary Road Trip: Kansas

As you know my husband and I have been on a Road Trip since we retired. So a Literary Road Trip sounded like something right up my alley. The question of which state to choose was a little tough at first because I have lived in quite a few states in my long life. But [...]