Me: I’m going to write blogs about other stuff. Also me: Too busy doing stuff to write about stuff. On that note, I am still posting some stuff on my regular IG account, but for friends and family I started rico.family@ so we can post more real-time photos of both…

It’s now officially summer in Seattle, and I did a bunch of porch (and plane) reading as the weather went from eh to ahhhhhh! I had a few days with my parents in Portland, my MIL in town, and a cat ready to cuddle no matter the weather. …

Wow, May brought sunshine and a return to reading on our deck again, oftentimes with Miss Astrix on my lap or trying to sneak down the stairs when she thinks I’m not watching (I am). I’m also counting down to my next trip to Powell’s, my favorite bookstore in the…

Happy spring, all! May is the true beginning of spring in the PNW, and I loved a little taste of spring when we visited New Orleans in April (don’t mind the clouds, it was lovely). This was a pretty good reading month, so here are my favorites of the twelve…

It’s April, and — no joke — it was a tough month of reading in March. A few of my much-anticipated books turned out to be duds (including *sob* Cloud Cuckoo Land, which I didn’t finish, and Matthew Perry’s autobiography, which I did) so I felt I wasted time trying…

It’s just been book blogs 24/7/365 — so I decided to take some time to share a bit about our recent trip to Mexico City (Cuidad de Mexico = CDMX). Yes, I’ve written many a travel blog before. But the goal isn’t to share cute travel shots — it’s to…

[4 weeks ago] Me: I’ll totally write a blog about something else before another book blog. [today] Me: Ah, well, better luck this month. So here we are, more than a week into March and I’m just now ready to share my favorite books from February. It feels a bit…

New year, more books! Actually, I had a big intention to start blogging about other things in my life — say, my health! — this year, and here we are at the end of January and… another book blog! I spent the first week of the month super-sick, so I…

It’s Pandemic Year 3, and what a wild one! I have been a bit behind on general blogging given that the first 9 months of the year were…