Belle, Book, and Candle

We are all artists. Whether our creativity shows up in the kitchen, the garden, the easel, the blog post, the darkroom, the poem, or th...

I am always happy to discover a new tale in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series by Alexander McCall Smith. There is somet...

I read with interest a piece written by Stephen Marche and published in The Guardian this past week. In it Mr. Marche states that there ...

Nineteen sixty-eight was a difficult year in America. We were fighting in Vietnam. Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. were bo...

Lately, I have been on a bit of a Julia Cameron reading binge. I recently picked up from the library and read her Letters to A Young Art...

A friend recently introduced me to Early Bird Books which sends e-book deals to my inbox. Every day there is a free book offered along with ...

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up:  The Japanese art of decluttering and organizing,  written by the Japanese home-organization c...