Last weekend, I headed to the Lakes for the first time in ages. We'd planned my first real hike since a debilitating back injury in early ...

Last night I travelled for about 3.5 hours to spend about 25 minutes in An Unlikely Story in Plainville, and a further 15 chatting with my dear ...

Sato the Rabbit, Morning Light by Yuki Ainoya My rating: 4 of 5 starsA new installment in this trippy series full of whinstvabx wonder. Goodbye ...

With the publication of Make Believe and the rather kerfuffling buzz about it, the worst of it on Instagram, I’ve been finding myself going back to ...

It’s been awhile! Before I share my reading recap of 2025, I wanted to address the elephant in the room- that I hadn’t posted in months- and that I ...

Sometimes, it feels like we’ve made too many poor choices for God to stay with us. Surely, there must be a limit to His love. Time and again, throughout ...

I am absolutely thrilled to tell you I have a guest article on Biblioll College on Stephen King’s Hansel and Gretel written to Maurice Sendak’s ...

Per the OED: Banal: Commonplace, common, trite; trivial, petty It’s rather a late word, borrowed from the French, and came to English in the ...

Favorite Books of 2025 – The Chronicles Of A Children's Book Writer – Earl Dizon ...

One of the writers I think of when Portland is mentioned is Renée Watson so it was bound to happen that I would want to read all her books. 2025 was ...