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Most people say they're not rude, yet most people encounter rude people.
Oprah delves into this issue in the November issue of O magazine, or you can read it here.
Having worked in the food service industry and having a husband that still does, I know all too well that people can be...
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In Martha Stout's The Sociopath Next Door, the psychologist-author warns people against a minority of the population, but dangerous nevertheless.
These people may or may not be violent, but they wage psychological warfare and Stout shows how it's best to keep away from them. This is the first...
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I know this is kind of long for a blog, but I thought I'd share this column I wrote with you online folks.
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I didn’t grow up in a newspaper family, but rather I grew up in a family that read newspapers.
What I mean by that is no one in my family had ever worked in newspapers...
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On my way to Padre Island National Seashore one weekend, my husband and I stopped for drinks and snacks at Wal-Mart.
It was then I noticed I forgot to pack any reading material. I need to read on the beach. It's part of the experience.
In frustration, I looked through all the Wal-Mart...
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I want to share this outstanding news with you from our circulation director, Hamp Rogers. To put another way what Hamp says below: We meet our community's needs better than any other newspaper in the state. Who says? Our readers...
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So claimed my favorite author of all time, Edgar Allan Poe. His intense poetry and spellbinding tales of the dark side of human nature reflected this. He is rumored to have perhaps died of rabies, or of alcohol or absinthe poisoning, thereby possibly explaining the madness that slowly took his...
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A colleague was approached by a man who wanted her to read his novel. She declined, but said she would give me his contact information since I had been published.
This brings to mind the importance of readers or a reading circle.
Other people should be reading what you are writing, but these...
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An article in the New York Times Magazine, "Teaching Boys and Girls Separately," discusses a new trend of all-girl and all-boy classrooms in public schools.
Theorist and author Leonard Sax convinces parents that single-sex education is the way to go, based on differences in biology...
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A few years back I read Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis trilogy and I thought it was some of the most intelligent science fiction I've read.
Butler takes us through a world of colonization and slavery through Dawn, Adulthood Rites and Imago. Aliens come to Earth in search of resources and plan to...
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Since we're well into black history month, I'm going to recall and rehash my favorite black authors and books.
I'll start with Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye. This book breaks readers' hearts as they learn about Pecola, who thinks herself ugly and wishes for blue eyes because she believes they...
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Victoria will surprise you.
Just when you think there's nothing to do, one evening brings two events to town like the American Book Review series reading event and the Anita Renfroe comedy show.
The evening started with Delta blues expert Thomas Williams doing a wonderful reading of...
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A couple of friends gave me and my husband The History of Beer in America by Bill Yenne, which tells about America's beer brewing legacy, starting with the colonies and corn-based beer.
The best part of the gift was that it came with a tin bucket of 18 beers of varying recipes collected from...
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My friend Walter stole a book from The Library, a downtown pub in Austin, because of its title The Walter Syndrome.
He read it simply because it contained his name. He said the book touched on the trend of naming sons "Walter" in the 30s. Reviews of the book indicate the author...
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My friend Liz gave me the hardback What is my cat thinking? book guide as she knows we love talking about our pet cats and their antics.
The 90-page easy-to-read book by Gwen Bailey didn't tell me much more than I already figured out, but it definitely clarified a few behaviors. Plus, it had...
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I'm reading the next novel in the Thursday Next series and as I read I didn't realize how much I missed this character.
Jasper Fforde is probably best known for his fiction The Eyre Affair, the first novel of the series. First Among Sequels continues with Thursday Next, a secret special ops...
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