What Would Dewey Do?

February’s Ladies Home Journal features an article about organizing one’s bookshelves by color. The photograph accompanying the article (the above is my rendition; the cat bookends were a gift from my mother some 45 years ago) depicts a shelf of red-bound...

Six Degrees of Hibernation

Winter in Michigan is sheer monotony. Cold and grey. Grey and cold. Sometimes it’s frigid and white. And white and frigid. Feels like living in an Ansel Adams photograph but more negative. But somehow this year the season is passing and I’m nowhere near as...