Martha A. Cheves's Blog Posts Tagged 'life' (12)

'Til the Streetlights Came On - Daniel J. Porter,Author

‘Til the Streetlights Came On – Review by Martha A. Cheves, Author of Stir, Laugh, Repeat; Think With Your Taste Buds; A Book and A Dish

6:30 a.m.: The thud of the paper on the front porch – two hours until ‘game time.’ (It took until 8:30 for the morning commute…

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Added by Martha A. Cheves on February 12, 2013 at 7:10pm — No Comments

Time Out - Mary Allen Sochet, Author

Time Out – Review by Martha A. Cheves, Author of Stir, Laugh, Repeat; Think With Your Taste Buds; A Book and A Dish

I never thought it would turn out this way. Growing old, fat, wrinkled, gray. Going to funerals way more than weddings. Watching our friends’ children…

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Added by Martha A. Cheves on January 19, 2013 at 3:11pm — No Comments

Legends of the Lake - Philip Nork, Author

Legends of the Lake – Review by Martha A. Cheves, Author of Stir, Laugh, Repeat; Think With Your Taste Buds; A Book and A Dish

While driving you’d pass many cow pastures, large corn fields, and farms to the left and the right of you, as you drove slowly to avoid the most…

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Added by Martha A. Cheves on November 18, 2012 at 3:09pm — No Comments

Of Time and Place - B. R. Freemont, Author

Of Time and Place – Review by Martha A. Cheves, Author of Stir, Laugh, Repeat; Think With Your Taste Buds, A Book and A Dish

‘It should be pointed out that after World War Two ended, the country experienced and unprecedented increase in the birth rate. This was called the ‘Baby…

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Added by Martha A. Cheves on September 8, 2012 at 4:35pm — No Comments

Until Today: Stories & Poems on Life as I Know It - Jerry M. White, Author

Until Today: Stories and Poems on Life as I Know It – Review by Martha A. Cheves, Author of Stir, Laugh, Repeat; Think With Your Taste Buds; A Book and A Dish

My Honor to be His

The more I see in this life of mine The more I see that nothing is mine The more I see in this…

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Added by Martha A. Cheves on August 15, 2012 at 6:15pm — No Comments

Confessions of a Crazy Fox - Anna Maria Kolojaco Mullins, Author

Confessions of a Crazy Fox – Review by Martha A. Cheves, Author of Stir, Laugh, Repeat; A Book and A Dish and Think With Your Taste Buds

‘I stewed about it until New…

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Added by Martha A. Cheves on March 9, 2012 at 6:29pm — No Comments

Things That Make Me Nuts -Annette Bergman, Author

Things That Make Me NUTS – Review by Martha A. Cheves, Author of Stir, Laugh, Repeat and Think With Your Taste Buds – Desserts…

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Added by Martha A. Cheves on January 2, 2012 at 6:11pm — No Comments

The Knowledge of Good and Evil - Glenn Kleier, Author

The Knowledge of Good & Evil - Review by Martha A. Cheves, Author of Stir, Laugh, Repeat and Think With Your Taste Buds

‘He stared into his empty glass, unsure where to begin or how much to reveal. He didn’t want to frighten them into paralysis, but he couldn’t mislead them. The sad part was,… Continue

Added by Martha A. Cheves on October 9, 2011 at 7:27pm — No Comments

Sin Creek - Susan Whitfield, Author

Sin Creek – Review by Martha A. Cheves, Author of Stir, Laugh, Repeat

‘When I was a high school administrator, I asked a student of mine how her sister coped with college life. She told me her sister found a lucrative way to raise tuition and live “the high…

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Added by Martha A. Cheves on February 9, 2011 at 6:24pm — No Comments

Barbary Point - Alan Nayes, Author

Barbary Point – Review by Martha A. Cheves, Author of Stir, Laugh, Repeat

‘Mitch stood with the pole in hand. “Maybe we’ll get lucky.” He checked something on the reel then cast out the line. I followed the…

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Added by Martha A. Cheves on January 10, 2011 at 4:19pm — No Comments

The Turn of the Karmic Wheel - Monica M. Brinkman, Author

The Turn of the Karmic Wheel – Review by Martha A. Cheves, Author of Stir, Laugh, Repeat

‘Harry had owned his shop for many years, seen some come in and go out in a sea of police gunfire, but, hell, he couldn’t worry about every customer

who purchased a weapon. Fact was, he had given up trying to figure out

man‘s nature years ago. Course, Euclid…

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Added by Martha A. Cheves on October 5, 2010 at 6:45pm — No Comments