STL Mom

When "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" was released, the author Rebecca Skloot was interviewed on every NPR program except Ca...

I read "The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University" by Kevin Roose in one day. I opened ...

I used to think my parents were weird and embarrassing, but they've got nothing on Said Sayrafiezadeh's parents. In "When Skate...

I love "stunt" memoirs, books about a person trying something weird or crazy and then writing a book about how it went. Many read...

I've been slowly reading the "No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency" books by Alexander McCall Smith. I'm reading them slowl...

Having children makes you feel old. My children insist on calling my childhood years "the old days" even though I am quite sure th...

Why am I sitting alone by the Christmas tree? I've moved the kids' bedtimes back since school break began, and let the kids sleep a ...

I almost cancelled our Thanksgiving vacation, because we were all sick. But I thought, "What if we wake up tomorrow and feel better, a...

I'm sure we've all wondered what life was like for a eunuch in 19th century Istanbul. Well, to be honest I hadn't really consid...

My kids are on a Tintin kick these days. They discovered them in the comic book section of our library over the summer. I'm not one of t...

Where have I been, you ask? During my year-long blog hiatus, I have bought a house, sold a house, moved to another state, and I think I hav...

We've read a few fun picture books in the last week or so: The Girl and the Elephant, by Nicole de Cock, begins, "This is the girl...