The End of October

Dear Friend, October is always such a fun and busy month: pumpkin patches and hay rides, apple picking, cider and “fall food”, the boys’ over-the-top excitement about their costumes for Halloween (Will is Sir William the Brave and Sam is ‘Dark’ Vader), my birthday. As Anne Shirley said in the book Anne of Green Gables: “I’m so…

Lady Jayne Disappears: A Book Review

I recently read a new novel written by a friend of mine, Joanna Davidson Politano. The book, Lady Jayne Disappears, is part mystery, part intrigue, part romance, and all-together hard to put down until the last page. (My children were thrilled the evening I was so absorbed in this book that all plans for supper…