This is a cookie for the indecisive sugar fiend. When you visit the recipe site, you will find a more beautiful sample of the finished product. I used a rather large cookie scoop, and cookies that big take 17 minutes to bake! As for the review of the extra-large book that I know you're all waiting on, I can report that I passed [...]
Unless you’ve been living some kind of Outlander existence for the last 50 years, you might have caught on that Mormons are big on families. Traditional ones. One mom. One dad. Some children. Some people — inside the church, actually — wish we’d shut up about it. We won’t. We don’t think we can afford to. While speaking up may be our strength, I don’t [...]
At the request of a faithful reader, today I unveil my top-10 fiction list. And what does it take to make the list? A) The book has to be memorable. I read enough books that they almost whiz by like highway signs. Not all of them stick with me. Ah, but the ones that do, they’re like great road trips that I wish I could [...]
This was the black sheep of my family. Take a guess at her most heinous crime: 1) eloped to Reno 2) smoked unfiltered cigarettes 3) stayed up long after the TV stations signed off for the night. The correct answer is: 3. Sister Black-Sheep was actually a pretty good girl. No elopements. No cigarettes. But her sleep habits? Yeah, a real stain on her character. [...]
I picked up two books this week. I opened one and found myself reading about an emotionally unstable woman. […]
I’m having trouble with my current read. Maybe I should just watch the mini-series. Here’s my problem: we have a main character whom we’ll call “Horace." We see everything from Horace’s point of view. We’re with Horace when Horace gives advice to his boss. We’re with Horace when he hands his horse off to the groom. We’re with Horace when he goes home to his [...]
