An open letter to Duolingo

Please make the early levels more tourist-friendly.

Book Review: 'The Downstairs Girl' by Stacey Lee

Jo Kuan, the protagonist and titular Downstairs Girl, is a Chinese American teenager living in Atlanta, Georgia just after the end of the U.S. Civil War.

This is your brain on menopause

I'm not wrong. It turns out menopause can break your brain.

What I'm reading on Substack

I love that they are promoting individual voices. Jury is still out on supporting the platform, though.

I got 'reader's block' in 2023

This time last year, I made what I thought was a simple (and easy!) new year's resolution to read a total of 12 books in 2023.

We moved to Berlin

It's funny where life takes you.

2023 Reading Challenge - Reading Down the Bookshelf

And we're back again! Here with the perennial goal of reading more books. This year, I'm going with what I hope will be an easy goal: Twelve books, one a month. As a writer and lifelong bookworm, it's embarrassing to admit that this is

Love song for a little house

By the time I publish this post, our 1952 brick ranch on a busy Decatur corner will belong to someone else.

Help for Ukraine

I am having trouble focusing on work or normal life tasks even though the conflict is on the other side of the world.

Tucker Observer: 'Cash is King'

This shortage is an ongoing national problem, driving up housing costs for both buyers and renters across the country.

What are your favorite work apps?

Otter.ai and Cube ACR Pro make my life much easier.

Decatur's affordable housing dilemma

I have an update on Decaturish this week about the city's stalled cottage court development.