I just learned that one of my all-time favorite used bookstores, Ace Books and Antiques, is about to close. Unfortunately it’s about an hour and a half away and I don’t think I can get there before they go out of business. My mom and stepdad called me from Culpeper this morning after seeing a […]
Month: September 2007
1881: Love Letters
This week I received a lovely gift from a coworker, Gene, who was looking to lighten his bookshelves at home. Knowing I had my little obsession with advice books (he came to my Valentine’s Day presentation at the Library of Congress), he so graciously gave me a book written in 1881 called National Encyclopedia of […]
Love in the Age of Texting
In cased you missed it, there was a fun article in the opinion section of the Washington Post this weekend called Rule of Thumbs: Love in the Age of Texting. My next post will have some advice from a time when our ancestors would have reached for the pen, instead of the keyboard or cell […]