books Archives - Cheryl Ruffing

Thankfully my throat let me get some sleep last night, but I’m not 100-percent and never quite found the energy to pick […]

Soon You Too Will Be Silent

My throat began hurting last night, and I didn’t get much sleep, but the dark hours gave me the perfect opportunity to […]

Well, at least for a little while, Roy Barrette, in A Countryman’s Journal, has me determined to keep a daily diary, which, […]

I got out of bed earlier than I normally do and was taken by the morning light in the kitchen and family […]

I have been dusting bookcases, which means going shelf by shelf: taking each book off in turn, dusting it, trying to part […]

Trying something new today, I pulled out a sketchbook and made some marks in relation to each book I read this morning. […]

It is a grey day that does not inspire me to pick up my camera. Instead, I’ll share some old artwork that […]

The Tao Te Ching (Ursula K. LeGuin’s translation) was among the books I got to this morning. I like seeing it near […]

My reading ambitions are almost always greater than the amount of time I have to devote to the habit. That’s okay. I […]

It’s a beautiful, sunny, temperate October day, so two of the kids and I drove to a local lake to just hang […]