“To read is to empower To empower is to write To write is to influence To Influence is to change To change is to live.” ~ Jane Evershed ~ I find home somewhere between the pages of books. As novelist Jean Rhys said, Reading makes immigrants of us all. It...

I’m going to lose all the vegetarians in 3…2…1! I eat meat. And as a recovering vegetarian, I find moments when the sight of meat sizzling on a pan is too much to handle because I can envision feathers or the hoofs once attached to the carcass....

Technology is a modern phenomena I can’t live without. I’m so lucky to have been born in a time in history when I could pull up an image from an ancient artifact in 1.87 seconds on Google, find a great restaurant within walking distance, and research...

Maybe I grew up watching too much Fresh Prince of Bel Air, but I have an affinity for all things Will Smith. When he said, Get Jiggy, wit it, I jigged [and still do]. When he drank Pepsi in 1999 because it he said it was refreshing, I popped the blue and red can into...

In Gone With The Wind, the Southern leading lady—Miss Scarlett O’Hara—says a phrase that I just adore, Well, I declare, Mr. Butler! In complete and utter shock, she makes a declaration about his behavior. The way she said it, with her twang, liquid...