Oxo: It All Began With an Apple Tart

I always thought that if Mort Walker, creator of the Beetle Bailey cartoon strip, had had an Oxo potato peeler, Private Bailey’s spud duty wouldn’t have been onerous in the least. If you have an Oxo potato peeler, you know what I’m talking about.  If...

Debra Darvick: The Gin Game

In New York for a family wedding, we snuck in a visit with our daughter as well, a stolen 48 hours or so woven through the festivities. During a lull, while my husband went down to the pool, Emma and I stayed in the cool of our hotel room and broke out a fresh pack of...

Hearing Voices, Past and Present

“It’s about the voice …” The first founding principle of ReadTheSpirit, 2007 Sometimes at services, voices “touch me as usually only something I haven’t seen coming can touch me or feed me as if from another’s hand with something that I hadn’t...

Novels For Your Nightstand

Discovered a new author, new to me anyway, when I was poking around the Well Red Coyote book store some months back. Novelist Linda Olsson divides her time between her native Stockholm, Sweden, and Auckland, New Zealand. Amidst all that back and forthing she writes...