After spending the last few days reading Nobody’s Girl, A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting For Justice, by Virginia Giuffre about her life before, during, and after Jeffrey Epstein, I have three comments: It is not an easy read. It is not easy to put down. It is a must read. If you are anything like me, you will feel gutted when you read how a…
The first book by Margaret Atwood that I ever read was The Edible Woman in the early 70’s shortly after it was first published, and I loved it. It was set in Toronto with plenty of recognizable locations and experiences I could identify with. Her main character, Marian McAlpin, worked for Seymour Surveys at a joe-job that wasn’t that different from my own job at…
The reason I haven’t posted a book review in several months is because it’s been that long since I’ve had my hands on a good book. I’ve started many and after a few dozen pages, I gave up. That all changed with The Road To Goderich, a book of historical fiction written by Linda McQuaig. If you read Roughing It In The Bush or Life…
Is there a boomer out there who doesn’t love Cher? We’ve watched her evolve from a skinny teenager in the sixties singing I Got You Babe alongside her then-husband Sonny Bono, to become a skinny senior citizen who can teach all of us a thing or two about how to shoulder life’s ups and downs and still end up on top. The lady knows how…
If you’re in the mood for a delightful little book that will take you on a mini-journey into rural life in southern Ontario, Canada, then I can’t recommend Finding Larkspur, A Return to Village Life by Dan Needles strongly enough. As someone who grew up in a semi-rural community, I could relate to so many of Needles’s stories and chuckled at his depiction of small-town…
There probably isn’t a baby boomer out there who does not have someone in their life affected by one of the dozens of conditions under the dementia or Alzheimer’s umbrella. Whether it’s a friend, parent, spouse, or even ourselves, the disease eventually attaches its tentacles to someone we know or love. While it is primarily considered an old person’s disease, we are increasingly seeing younger…
