Dear Avid Reader, A section of The Birch Chronicle that delights me repeatedly is Diane’s Book Reviews. This offering is important to me because I believe reading is one of the best activities we can inhabit for our own well-being as well as the well-being of humanity. It can also be one of the hardestContinue reading “For the Love of Reading Books”
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Etched in Her Heart
Dear Avid Reader, Sun’s up in Chi-Town. As this gemstone swings between a mild heat wave and arctic temperatures that only scare away the thin-blooded, everything is in flow and this flow is everything. The sky is as blue as the depths of Lake Michigan that are visible in front of a ghostly curtain ofContinue reading “Etched in Her Heart”
Kaffeeklatsch
Dear Avid Reader, I invite you to pause whatever you are doing, pour yourself a coffee, tea or water (do you prefer naturale or frizzante?) and pull up a comfortable seat to Kaffeeklatsch. For over a year, I’ve tiptoed around my nameless blog in The Birch Chronicle while not posting as consistently as I didContinue reading “Kaffeeklatsch”
The Book Box
In December, when I read that my local library was offering a book box program in 2024, I signed up right away. I was intrigued by the idea that each month, the librarian would create a personalized box for fifty people maximum filled with a few books and a treat or two and place themContinue reading “The Book Box”
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