by tanyaagler | May 17, 2015 | reading
I can’t remember a time when I didn’t read. When I was very little, my father served in the military and was stationed in Germany. Even though they barely had two nickels to rub together, my parents made sure they found books in English and started a book collection...
by tanyaagler | Mar 9, 2015 | reading
This isn’t any ordinary Monday morning. It’s the Monday after spring forward. The Monday after the weekend we all adjust to a different time schedule. For some, it’s a piece of cake adjusting, eager to have more daylight toward the latter part of the day. For the rest...
by tanyaagler | Feb 18, 2015 | reading
My daughter is back, safe and sound from her trip to Boston. We talked this morning, and she said that only herself and another girl brought books on the trip. On the way back from Boston, they talked on the plane about their favorite books. As a writer, I sat back in...
by tanyaagler | Feb 2, 2015 | reading
Have you ever attended a book signing? If so, was it an individual book signing or a group one? I’ve had the pleasure of attending both types of autograph events. What a thrill it was for me to meet Ginger Rogers when she signed her autobiography at a Borders...
by tanyaagler | Jan 26, 2015 | reading
My grandmother used to love to start jigsaw puzzles in winter. A huge football fan, she’d wait for college bowl games to end. The second they did out came the 1000 piece puzzles and we’d sort through the pieces to find the edged ones to put those together first....
by tanyaagler | Jan 14, 2015 | reading
As a parent of an inquisitive five-year-old, I often get asked about time. How many seconds are in two hours? How many minutes are in a day? How many hours are in a week? And to sound like a cliché, it’s times like that I realize I need six or seven clones or thirty...
