Hackers, Scammers, and Identity Thieves, Oh My!

Help! I’m being attacked from all directions! March was a bad month for feeling secure in my digital life, and one where I had to really stay on my toes. Within a matter of 10 days, these things happened: A book marketer contacted me about promoting my book, and this time I was tempted to take the […]
Losing Our Friends: More Often Than Not, We Suffer in Silence

I recently became a subscriber to The Atlantic, and they sent out an email with links to eight of their most popular articles from their archives. One caught my eye: “It’s Your Friends Who Break Your Heart,” written in 2022 by Jennifer Senior. It’s subtitled “The older we get, the more we need our friends—and […]
Normal Women: Nine Hundred Years of Making History

by Philippa Gregory, 2024 Normal Women: Nine Hundred Years of Making History—Unveiling the Untold Stories of Women Who Shaped England from 1066 to Modern Times is a history of women, yes, but specifically the history of women in Great Britain. One that we in the United States largely inherited in the form of attitudes, culture, […]
Gluten for Punishment: Just Desserts for the Heartbroken, Lovesick, and Jilted

by Julie Seyler, 2025 Gluten for Punishment is a hybrid memoir/cookbook written by long-time baking blogger (https://twobittart.com) and trained chef Julie Seyler. This Gen-Xer took her real-life stories of dating disasters in the modern world and turned it into a memoir. Sometimes funny, sometimes exasperating, she chronicles five main relationships that start out mostly from […]