Last week, four books arrived in the mail. On Tuesday, I received The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks , which I won...

Friday night I watched Message in a Bottle , the movie based on the novel of the same name by Nicholas Sparks . Now I've seen all four ...

I think The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks would make a good movie because this romance is filled with action and suspense. But I 'm ge...

"It takes honeybee workers ten million foraging trips to gather enough nectar to make one pound of honey." ~Bees of the World, ...

Yesterday mid-morning I made a beeline for Barnes & Noble and there it was, an entire display devoted to the new book by Nicholas Sparks...

"Dear friends, here we are, and here we must stay. Let the boundaries of this village become our whole world. Let none enter and none...

Yesterday I saw the movie I've been waiting all summer for, Nights in Rodanthe , starring Richard Gere and Diane Lane, based on the book...

Sunday night I saw the movie A Walk to Remember with Mandy Moore and Shane West , a movie I was interested in seeing that I just happened ...

Today I finished Bloomability , another charming book by Sharon Creech , and just in time, too, as The Rescue arrived in my mailbox...

We have beautiful grapes! It's an absolute thrill, a real joy, to grow grapes on our property, after waiting two years for the vines to ...

One of the best things about vacations is that when there's not that much to do, you really get a chance to read and relax. I finished T...

Greetings! Technically I'm "on vacation" right now. I'm back from a weekend at Disneyland and California Adventure; both...

For those of you that haven't read my profile or early posts, I'm a fan of author Nicholas Sparks . I didn't expect to enjoy hi...

Nicholas Sparks credits his mom for starting his lucrative writing career. When an injury threatened to end his running career at Notre Dame...

"My mom's attitude made it hard not to like her. She was always upbeat, no matter how terrible things were, and she made light of ...