A single photo – no words – capturing a moment. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.  I love collecting shells on the beach, but on this particular day, I decided to just take a picture. Somehow they seemed to send a message – like love letters in the sand! If you were born around the time I was you’d remember this song from Pat Boone : [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ENzT9k1LRs&w=560&h=315]   Joining Esha, The Sky Girl and Natasha at Natasha Musing for #WordlessWednesday today.

This is a guest post by Evy Journey, the author of Sugar and Spice and All Those Lies. Let me first make a small confession: I wrote a lot of the Wikipedia entry on the novel  North and South by Victorian writer Elizabeth Gaskell. I had read the book and ample information on the topic already exists in the French Wikipedia. I thought: why not? But I also did my own research—old habits die hard. Why am I telling you this? In my research, I learned from Jill Matus in The Cambridge Companion to Elizabeth Gaskell that Gaskell focused on…

Book Details: Book Title: Sugar and Spice and All Those Lies by Evy Journey Category: Adult Fiction, 240 pages Genre: Literary / Women’s Fiction Publisher: Sojourner Books Release date: December 2017 Tour dates: Feb 1 to 16, 2018 Content Rating: R (Two bedroom scenes) Book Description: Cooking a wonderful meal is an act of love. An act of grace. A gift that affirms and gives life—not only does it nurture those who partake of a meal; it also feeds the soul of the person who creates it. These are lessons Gina learns from her mother. Gina is a young woman…