by Carol Jane Morrison | Feb 8, 2016 | Essays, The Biblio File
The Biblio File February Essay: “A Mixed Blessing: Facebook, 2015” A MIXED BLESSING Facebook, 2015 February, 2015 I have to do it, they tell me. Publishing a novel is practically impossible without online presence. I’ve managed to stay off Facebook, fearful it will...
by Carol Jane Morrison | Jan 18, 2016 | Book Reviews
“Ordinary Grace” by William Kent Krueger “That was it. That was all of it,” Frank Drum says. “A grace so ordinary there was no reason at all to remember it. Yet I have never across the forty years since it was spoken forgotten a single word.” I...
by Carol Jane Morrison | Jan 17, 2016 | Essays, The Biblio File
The Biblio File January Essay: “Fear Less” FEAR LESS On New Year’s Day for the past three years, I resolved to chew my food mindfully, thirty times per mouthful. On January second for the past three years, I forgot and chomped mindlessly away. Forget it, I told...
by Carol Jane Morrison | Dec 12, 2015 | Book Reviews
“Second Wind” by Dr. Bill Thomas The anthem, “Peace, Love, and Barbecue,” on my husband Ed’s apron, proclaims him an aging Baby Boomer. Boomers are Dr. Bill Thomas’s subject and target audience in his inspiring book, SECOND WIND. Every eight to ten...
by Carol Jane Morrison | Dec 11, 2015 | Essays, The Biblio File
The Biblio File December Essay: “The Baby’s Coming” THE BABY’S COMING Twenty years ago, basking in a hot tub with friends, someone asked, “Is there anything you regret?” I thought for a second and said, “I wish I’d had children.” Early in our...
