Melissa’s Marriage of Readers: “To Have and To Hold…The Same Book?”

Melissa’s Marriage of Readers: “To Have and To Hold…The Same Book?”

Please welcome my friend Melissa to The 3 R’s today! Melissa blogs at The Betty and Boo Chronicles, where she hosts the Memorable Memoirs Reading Challenge and blogs about books, autism, food, her 9 year old twins (Betty and Boo), current events, and The Husband (who you’ll meet in this guest post). I was fortunate to have Melissa as my roommate last year at BlogHer’10 in New York City, and am glad to have her […]

In which I pessimistically admit I *could* be an optimist

In which I pessimistically admit I *could* be an optimist

People tend to think in terms of binaries – optimist/pessimist, good/bad, dark/light, full/empty, heads/tails – although most things are more complicated than that. But at the same time, one part of the pair can’t exist without the other – and at some point in the mix we might find those elusive things we call “truth” and “balance.” My sister and I have gone back and forth on the optimist/pessimist thing for years. She’s fundamentally an […]