Nana’s Books: They Didn’t Use Their Heads, by Jo Ann Stover, written in 1960. Age: 3+ Reminder: Nana’s Books are rated G. Anyone could read them, or listen to them being read aloud. Particulars: Good examples: ***** Bad examples: ***** Inappropriate language: None. Sexual references: None. This is a great book to read aloud and talk about. What we […]
Nana’s Books: The Threatening Fog, by Leon Ware, written in 1952. Age: 10+ Reminder: Nana’s Books are rated G. Anyone could read them, or listen to them being read aloud. Particulars (Out of 5): Positive role models ***** Inappropriate language: None. Sexual references: None. Eben Tyrell Hall lives on an Air Force base in Texas with his mom […]
Nana’s Books: The Mooring Tree, by Gertrude Robinson, written in 1957. Age: 10+ Reminder: Nana’s Books are rated G. Anyone could read them, or listen to them being read aloud. Particulars (Out of 5): Historical value: ***** Positive role models ***** Inappropriate language: None. Sexual references: None. Alcohol: There is ale, but it’s 1609 […]
I make my living as a health writer and I mostly eat healthy food. I even gave up eating my beloved Frosted Cinnamon Pop Tarts years ago. But like a salmon driven by instincts so primitive and fundamental that it risks its life and being eaten by grizzly bears and eagles to swim upstream, I […]
I am wearing a new watch with this amazing feature: it tells time! That’s it! I do have an Apple watch, all plugged in and ready to go. It’s perfectly fine, works great, tracks my every step, my calories, and my heart rate. It can even do an EKG – and I’ve done […]
If you are one of my new neighbors and you were minding your own business – maybe sitting outside enjoying the morning, having a cup of coffee – I’m sorry. I just walked the dogs again. This should be a fairly straightforward event. A transaction, if you will: I will take you […]
Due to some Apple software glitch, I have two Siris. They are both Irish. I like having Siri with an accent. For a while, she had a British-Indian accent. She’s been Australian, and now her Irish relatives are on the job. It was going so well. Irish Siri is cheerful, upbeat, thoughtful: […]
Bumble Creek Farm
A delightful true account, told with love and humor by award-winning writer Janet Farrar Worthington, of her young family's riotous adventures on their own "Green Acres," as two urban professionals "who had no idea whatsoever what we were doing" start a farm in beautiful Horse Oak, Virginia.
Janet has done it again in this charming book giving happy little snapshots of home and family, animals with attitude, life in a small town, and finding the funny when everything seems crazy.