I love watching the Oscars with my friends: good food, gossip, drinks.  However, I cringe every year when the production team comes out ahea...

I finished out my 2011 Craft Crawl with a visit to Common Threads, the quilting shop here in North Liberty. In a snowstorm, of course, but...

Seven Iowa City-area craft stores are hosting the second Craft Crawl this week: Beadology , Ben Franklin, Common Threads , Fired Up , Home E...

Booklovers everywhere were saddened yesterday to learn that Borders a) filed for bankruptcy protection and b) was going to close 200 stores ...

For Singles' Awareness Day, I have a little Christina Rossetti: Promise me no promises, So will I not promise you: Keep we both our ...

I was hanging out with my friends Kat and Aaron and we were going through Kat's Netflix Instant queue looking for something to watch.  K...

I love knitting and I love new books so a new knitting book totally hits both happy spots.  Behold what arrived: This is re...

The advance copy of Michael David Lukas's The Oracle of Stamboul came in a lovely purple envelope with, I think, a hoopoe on the "...

Shirley is the first Charlotte Bronte novel to grace "Literature by Women" at BNBC (we read Emily's  Wuthering Heights in 2...

I was interested in reading  Till I End My Song  simply because the premise of gathering "last poems" together intrigued me.  Ther...

...you're geeking out at your new cookbooks. I ditched a whole box of old cookbooks I didn't use/had nasty recipes/had actually ne...