gemma D. alexander

Last month a new independent bookstore just fell in my lap – or more precisely, opened in my neighborhood. As The Uncommon Cottage continued its...

. For those of you following along from home, here is a roundup of all my articles that published in October 2023. I hope you...

The third independent bookstore I wanted to check out was Mercer Street Books, featured in a Seattle Times article about a year ago. From that...

I like the settling down feeling of September. If you are settling down to some reading, here are the articles I wrote that you might...

August was a month of upheaval as two of my favorite long-time editors moved on to other gigs. But I continued to write a constant...