by LJ Metz | May 7, 2012 | What's On My Bookshelf
One of the best things about eBooks is that I can highlight scenes and lines that are stunning, insightful, or simply delicious–and then easily find them again. On that note: The Night Circus, by Erin Morgenstern. Reading Morgenstern’s story, I felt as if...
by LJ Metz | Apr 7, 2012 | Searching For Meaning
It was a chilly, rainy, Easter Sunday. We’d been to church and back, and my family, all nine hundred and ninety nine of them—okay, maybe only seventeen—were tromping around my house hunting for Easter Eggs. I was pleased because this year was going to be different....
by LJ Metz | Mar 28, 2012 | What's On My Bookshelf
Fantasy author and writer friend, Shawn Wickersheim, recommended I read The Iron King. Let me be more specific: tough, scary-if-you-happened-to-be-alone-when-you-run-into-him-in-a-dark-alley Shawn Wickersheim, author of the gritty, dark, fantasy adventure, The...
by LJ Metz | Dec 22, 2011 | Recipes, Searching For Meaning
Searching for something tasty for your holiday breakfast? Look no further. Below is my grandmother’s recipe for an old family favorite, Swedish Cardamon Bread. That’s right, nothing deep about this post. Just something warm, sweet, and delicious to bite into....
by LJ Metz | Nov 10, 2011 | Searching For Meaning
I’m a worrier. I’m a woman. Sometimes I think they’re the same. My husband doesn’t worry about anything. No, I take that back, he worries about business. He’s a man. Maybe I’m being sexist but, in my house, that’s the way it is. Lately, I’ve been worrying about people...
