A while back a friend mentioned in Facebook the hooping class she was taking and I couldn’t wrap my mind around the idea. My idea of hula hooping was a cheap plastic tube with a bead in it and the circle never staying up around my waist or middle. Hooping always frustrated me as a child and I was sure that…
When I did the Philadelphia Half Marathon four years ago and the full Marathon two years ago I came across blue shirted students enthusiastically running in packs. After the physical and mental pain of the race wained I vowed to volunteer with this organization; the students were so inspirational! As we chugged through the city the students kept each other (and…
In which The Bee and I meet Ms. Stitch ‘n Bitch herself Debbie Stoller. Or I am going to the dark side. The Free Library of Philadelphia hosts a program called the Author Events. This program has won three “Best of Philly” designations from Philadelphia magazine and according to the Free Library web site hosts more than 125(!) authors each year. Last night…
I really wanted to love Allison Whittenberg‘s new book Tutored. Allison is a phenomenal writer, her first book, Sweet Thang, was a favorite for Pop and myself and the sequel, Hollywood and Maine can’t stay on the shelves at my library. So when I heard about Tutored and read the blurb I was hooked. From GoodReads: Wendy Anderson and Hakiam Powell…
I’ve just finished Lori L Tharp’s Substitute Me and not quite sure how I feel about the book. The tweet that alerted me to the book described it as a thriller that was full of suspense yet the thrills and suspense I sought were not quite as spine tingling as promised. Substitute Me begins when Zora Anderson, a Black thirty year…