Opinion

My mother’s grandmother, my great-grandmother, emigrated from Ireland. My mother inherited her red hair, freckles and light Irish skin. I didn’t get the red hair, but definitely inherited the freckles and fair, easily sunburned skin.

Lately, it seems like I haven’t read anything besides newspaper copy. So, at the beginning of March, I was ready for Reading Month. One of my projects for March is to participate with Fairview Area Schools in One Book, One School. The idea is for everyone to be able to connect through the same book. Fairview is reading two books, actually.

Just this week, I added two new members to my small family. By family, I mean Venus, my adorable ball python, and I.

Song as old as rhyme. There is a not-so-new genre of books that have been showing up on book shelves online and in stores over the past few years.