The BookFetish Blog

To Everything There is a Season… that’s been running through my head a lot lately.  After all my talk and plans earlier this year to post more frequently, life went and did its own thing, as it is prone to do, and here I am weeks without publishing anything. Without going into too much detail, […]

Happy New Year!  I know I’m not the only one saying it, but I cannot believe 2013 is ending and 2014 is raring to go.  I like the number four.  Having a four in the year makes me hopeful for what may unfold in the new year. I’ve not written the Sunday Win(e)d Down in […]

When I was very young, I would sometimes get a feeling that “something bad” was going to happen overnight, and it made me afraid to go to sleep. In my mind, this “something bad” was often a house fire, and it terrified me. In the early hours of this morning, I lost a cousin to […]

  “Sydney Ellen Wade: [as they head to the state dinner] Do you do this often? President Andrew Shepherd: Well, we had a state dinner for the prime minister of Japan, who died shortly thereafter, so we stopped having them just in case. Sydney Ellen Wade: No. I mean, do you date often? President Andrew […]

It all started with cocktails. Of course it did. Cocktails with a friend I had known in fourth grade (who grew up next door to my college roommate), a high school friend, and a friend I met in college through my best friend in elementary school.  The high school friend had also gone to elementary […]