February on the Crooked Road
In case you missed them, here are the top 5 posts in February: Doe Bay Tradition: I posted a photo of my relatives who drove...
Ambassador Kate DiCamillo at Seattle Public Library
Kate DiCamillo has a Southern accent. I did not expect this because I do not hear it in the lyrical rhythms of her wide-eyed fiction....
China Dolls
I have been a fan of Lisa See since On Gold Mountain, so I was excited to receive a review copy of China Dolls before...
I’m Giving Away Small Mercies
I went out of town for a weekend, and when I got home my stack of mail included several books for review. Inexplicably, I had...
Can You Handel Seattle Opera’s Semele?
Typical. I studied hard for the accessible Tosca. But I walked into Seattle Opera’s production of Semele cold. And I really could have used a...