Welcome to Carmen's Book Adventure

My mom and I were discussing the Thanksgiving Day menu recently, and I threw out the perennial favorite: green bean casserole. Based on...

What do you do when you can't eat a whole bag of clementines before they start to go bad? You call your mom, of course! My mother is...

Have you ever wondered about the difference in the two sayings, "hold your peace" and "say your piece"? They seem to reference the same...

When I moved to Arab, my boys were 6, 5, and 5 years old. I had moved them from everything they had ever known back to an extended family...

I love writing with a fountain pen. It makes me feel fancy, old fashioned, bougie, and outside the norm, all at once. Pens have come a...

A year or so ago, I saw a post on Fun 92.7’s Twitter page about Ruth Bader Ginsburg. It was not nice, called her a rude name, and said...

I can barely stand it. Which means that, sometimes, I can't stand it. I had to correct a coworker today when she wrote that "we need more...

I am a journaler. Well, if truth be told, I used to be a journaler. You see, there was a group on facebook that I joined, a group of...

In a previous post, I mentioned my much-loved trip to San Fran. My life-long friend Jennie was going for a conference, and she invited me...

On this day in 1951, William S. Burroughs, author of the very controversial and often-challenged The Naked Lunch, shot and killed his...

As a white woman of immense privilege, I have never had to search to see reflections of myself. I am on television. I am on book covers....

Remember when your grandmom used to tell you that time seemed to move faster the older she got? She was so right. I wonder why. Could it...

I have read as long as I can remember. I loved The Ramona series by Beverly Cleary, and devoured Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys books....