How do you choose which books you’re going to read? The New York Times Bestseller List? Book reviews in other publications? Suggestions from friends and family? I definitely use mainly the latter, but over the last several years I have also gotten into the habit of saving reading lists and […]
I few years ago, I started reading books about creativity. Not books with creative projects per se, but books that talk about helping you to tap into your own innate creativity. The first one I read was the ubiquitous The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron, and that jumped started my […]
I love, love, love the Gilmore Girls, it was my go to guilty pleasure TV show to watch a few years ago. I don’t know what it is about that show, maybe the awesome but weird relationship between Rory and Lorelai, maybe all the references to pop culture, or the […]
Since 2013 I have been using Goodreads to set and track a reading challenge. In 2013 I set a goal of 52 books and read 55. In 2014 I increased the goal to 60, and read 57. I am sticking with 60 again this year, let’s see if I can […]
Hello! Welcome to my new digs! I’m so happy today to finally unveil the new Callaloo Soup. And almost 9 years to the day that I started blogging too! When I made the move over to WordPress, I made one major change. I split my old blog into two sections […]
I’m a voracious reader. Always have been. As a child my family knew to mainly give me books for gifts. Sometimes my cousins would even use books to bribe me to get to play games with them! My reading dropped off in the early years with Kieran, but over the […]
