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As we prepare to put our old house on the market, I’ve been busy eradicating all the signs from doors and walls. Yes, you read that right. My old house has signs pasted in various places all o...

https://ravenousreader.wordpress.com/2013/05/10/signage/

Never in a million years would  I have imagined that within the space of 10 months I would be embroiled in selling two houses and buying another. Ridiculous. Aren’t I the girl that just longs ...

https://ravenousreader.wordpress.com/2012/09/15/really-into-real-estate/

In 1945, Elsie Schmidt was a naive teenager, as eager for her first sip of champagne as she was for her first kiss. She and her family have been protected from the worst of the terror and despera...

https://ravenousreader.wordpress.com/2012/09/05/tlc-book-tours-the-bakers-daughter/

A book within a book within a book… A reporter asking questions about a reporter asking questions… Sounds like one of those Russian nesting dolls, doesn’t it? At the very least, it sounds l...

https://ravenousreader.wordpress.com/2012/08/21/tlc-book-tours-miss-me-when-im-gone/

Bookstack is now closed. Thank you for reading these past five years. The conversation continues at Bookstack’s Facebook page. Please visit the Ravenous Reader at Becca’s Byline, where she wr...

https://ravenousreader.wordpress.com/2012/08/15/change-of-address/

Simplicity. I’m embracing it wholeheartedly as I begin the process of moving out of the home I’ve lived in all of my adult life and into a new condominium in a neighboring town. There will be...

https://ravenousreader.wordpress.com/2012/08/14/the-new-order/

Back in the mid 1980’s when I was deep in the throes of motherhood, I looked forward to reading Anna Quindlen’s wonderful column “Life in the Thirties.” It was syndicated in our Detroit F...

https://ravenousreader.wordpress.com/2012/08/02/getting-re-acquainted-with-an-old-friend/

In the confluence of events that is the reading life, the fate and experience of children is much on my mind this morning, and the thoughts are enhanced by feeling a particularly deep longing to ...

https://ravenousreader.wordpress.com/2012/07/29/the-sunday-salon-children-on-my-mind/

Adriana Trigiani writes the kinds of stories I really enjoy – books about family and relationships. Her pride in her Italian heritage and her deep sense of family values and integrity shines th...

https://ravenousreader.wordpress.com/2012/07/24/simply-reading-the-shoemakers-wife/

When I was little, it was the glossy pages that appealed to me. And the smell -perhaps I should call it the aroma, because that sounds so much sweeter – and the aroma of fresh ink on smooth glo...

https://ravenousreader.wordpress.com/2012/07/22/the-sunday-salon-pondering-periodicals/