My husband, Spencer, is close to completing his three-year Internal Medicine residency. The time has come for the last crazy loop on the roller coaster; we are moving at breakneck speed toward the finish line. The first year I was overwhelmed. The tears, they flowed freely. The second year, I was mostly pissed. The schedule and some of the staff were a complete...

When you are an avid reader and your father becomes a published author during his retirement, all of the feels are real. My Dad, Russell B. Crites, recently penned his third book. It is by far his best work yet. (See another review here. ) Murder has come to sleepy northern Montana in the 1930s. Rowdy is a sinister poker player looking for the easy way out. Ray has...

2017 was the first time that I was retired for the full calendar year. Couple that with The Doc being knee-deep in residency, and I had some serious time on my hands. Time enough to read 102 books, apparently. I am sure that this is a feat that won’t be repeated by me any time soon. We have a bunch of life coming at us in 2018, and I am fairly certain there...

I absolutely loved this book by Amor Towles. It may be the perfect end to my greatest reading year ever. (I may have time to sneak one more book in, time will tell!) Count Alexander Rostov is ordered to spend the rest of his days in a luxury hotel in Moscow. His crime? Being a gentleman and an intellect in Russia in the early 1900s. The Count will also go down in...