>Ho ho ho
>Off to New York for my last year’s birthday present from Elizabeth, seeing my namesake challenged by the Jolly Green Newbie. Back to our usual programming on Tuesday. The post >Ho ho ho appeared...
View Article>Adolescent upsets
>In addition to the satisfying spectacle of Maria Sharapova being picked off by a younger (and quieter!) player, I was also treated this past weekend to a superb exposition of teen angst, in the...
View ArticleWhat ELSE do you do?: five questions for Deborah Taylor
Deborah Taylor is third from the left in this 2014 photo of the “Cincy Gang.” Photo by Alison Dougherty Berkowitz. This series of interviews debuted last spring with five questions for author T.A....
View ArticleI’m going to see the folks I dig
Be still my heart I am off next week for California; visiting children and grandchildren; seeing friends including Mina, Eugene, and Andy; and attending the tennis tournament at Indian Wells, tickets...
View ArticleThe Mystery in the Bookshop
A colleague from the New York office was over for drinks last Friday and she mentioned that she forgot to bring a book for the train back. I gave her my copy of Elizabeth Peters’ Die for Love, a cozy...
View ArticleReview of Game Changers: The Story of Venus and Serena Williams
Game Changers: The Story of Venus and Serena Williams by Lesa Cline-Ransome; illus. by James E. Ransome Primary, Intermediate Wiseman/Simon 48 pp. 7/18 978-1-4814-7684-3 $17.99 e-book ed....
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