Sure, sure, canning as a topic doesn’t sound all that interesting, does it? But it is, and that’s what was kind of surprising.
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I even told the Good Housekeeping reporter at one point in our back-and-forth that I didn’t know if I had any self-generated old-school advice, as I’m “not that old.”
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Outside the United States, the very much beloved Julia Child, so frequently cited and lovingly lauded and even spoofed in books and films, is a relative unknown.
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The story of how Switzerland, a country with nothing inherently to do with chocolate, has come to have so much to do with chocolate.
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The dragons of Switzerland, naturally, are dragons of the Alps. And, it turns out, the legends might have some basis in truth.
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I got to thinking recently that nowhere I love and nowhere I’ve traveled has had a museum of storytelling and literature.
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Despite the endless confusion and evident misery, we may never get rid of changing the clocks twice a year.
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Noir fans, like me, have endless theories and stances and opinions about the genre, enough to make me wonder if noir fiction isn’t unique the nebulousness of its definition. (Fitting, no?)
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If you think you don’t like horror novels and short stories, you may not have the full perspective on horror fiction. Hear me out—especially if you like thriller and suspense books.
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If many countries have a holiday to honor laborers, why isn’t it an international holiday celebrated on the same day?
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Anyone who reads this blog knows I’m a huge book nerd who also writes fiction. Whether or not you write, if you love reading, you’ll love these podcasts.
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Most people do not know that Switzerland has four national languages: German, French, Italian, and Romansch.
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A way for bookstores to build an additional revenue stream, increase and reinforce their customer bases, and attract customers and other members of the community more often.
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From having moved internationally more than once, I can say that every country has its own laws about animals. The Swiss laws around pets, though, are unlike anything I’ve yet encountered.
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Frankly, we really should apply the principles of healthy eating—what we put into our bodies—to what we put on our bodies.
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While bad people make mistakes, good people make them, too. Treating good people like bad people in the face of an error harms them (and us).
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While people and organizations have aimed to reduce life friction as much as possible, we might just want to add back in some of it for our own health and wellbeing.
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SAD or just the season? it seems unreasonable to assume that seasons don’t affect humans when they affect everything else. We live in the atmosphere, after all. Even when we sometimes wish we did not.
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