I recently tripped across an online report Book Clubs in Lockdown, that provides the results of a survey of 3,400+ book club members throughout the United States. It explores how book clubs are responding and adapting to the events of 2020, and what it means for the future. Its findings show that three-quarters of book…
Back to the Garden
My mother-in-law says that Easter is the best time to plant a spring garden. Whether or not this is true, I have no idea. I heard it secondhand and wasn’t particularly interested in having that kernel of wisdom take root in my head. But somehow it did, and now I am a person with a…
Hello From Home Part Two
Brace yourselves, a retrospective is coming. Last year, I wrote this piece describing what time had been like in our home after two months of "lock down." As it turns out, I'm home again although for a different reason. For the last month I've been on leave, taking care of my child who is recovering…
Women in Filmmaking
Over the last couple of years, there has been more of a push for women's representation on the big and little screens. While strides have been made, there's still a ways to go. As of 2019, only 21% of people working in the top 100 grossing films were women. Black women, women of color, trans…
The Wonderful Bookish World of Bookstagram
If there’s one thing I enjoy as much as books, it’s pretty pictures of books, and I’ve discovered a little corner of the social webs where you can scroll through hundreds, if not thousands, of images of tomes, book stacks, shelves, bookstores, libraries, and more: Bookstagram. For those unfamiliar, Bookstagram is a community of Instagram…
Guitar Gods and Gear Mods
In the last few months, two notable musicians who inspired me to seriously pursue guitar playing as a craft in my teens passed away. Alexi Laiho of Children of Bodom was a virtuosic metal player who incorporated neoclassical aspects into his songwriting, fueled by his background as a violinist (which spoke to me deeply, being…
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