Tick Tock. Each beat of your heart is like a tick on the clock of life, each hour making up a chapter, until you have a tapestry woven together from ticks and tocks – mistakes, wisdom, and experiences bound together to form a life story. In Nancy Klann-Moren’s novel, “The Clock of Life,” we meet [...]
The AP exams are wrapping up, graduation is just around the corner, and you have chosen whose hallowed halls you’ll be gracing for the next few years. At last, a plan is coming together…but now what? Preparing to enter the world of higher education and quasi-adulthood is no small feat. Once the obvious hurdles have [...]
Several years ago, when my then sister-in-law was working for Starbucks, she brought home their featured book of the month: “Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction,” by David Sheff. Unable to “get into it,” she asked me if I’d like to read it first. While not affected personally by drug addiction, the [...]
Books as we know them have been around the block a few times. The last major change in the format of the written word came around the time of Christ, when the codex – basically a scroll cut into smaller sized pages to facilitate easier reading – came into existence. With the subsequent invention of [...]
As women, we have been conditioned over the years to believe that once we hit a certain age, it is time to fade into the woodwork. Cut our hair, take up knitting, and quietly enjoy our journey through the golden years into life’s big sunset. More mature women disappear from the limelight, don’t show too [...]
Dr. Jerry Argovitz is a man with a plan. He always has been, ever since being a young, poor Jewish boy in a town of rough and tumble Texans who had to find creative ways to both earn a nickel, and stand up to the the bullies who wanted to knock him down. A dentist [...]
National Library Week is a time each year when, all across the country, libraries come together to honor the contributions they have made to our nation, encourage reading, and promote library use and support. The Newport Beach Public Libraries will join their biblio-brothers and sisters in the celebration, running from April 14-April 20, by offering [...]
Newport Beach boasts yet another member of the august club known as “Published Authors,” in the form of it’s very own everyman, Ernest Cohen, by way of his new collection of short stories, “The Art of Coincidence.” Reading this book is a bit like taking an enjoyable trip down the rabbit hole. A sojourn into [...]
In this YouTube era of instant gratification, and gratuitous everything, the old adage “less is more” is often forgotten. Not so for Orange County writer, Marcie Kremer, author of the new historical romance, “Torch in the Forest.” Like a seasoned burlesque performer, Kremer believes that hints and innuendos are more enticing than an all out [...]
Twihards unite! Later this month, the movie adaptation of “The Host,” a sci-fi love story brought to us by the author of the “Twilight Saga” will debut in a theater near you. Stephenie Meyer, the woman behind the most talked about love triangle of the last decade (are you Team Jacob or Team Edward?) wrote [...]
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