Be My Valentine Week

Book: My One Square Inch of Alaska (New 2013) by Sharon Short

Destination: Ohio and an American Road Trip

This book picked me up in a red convertible with the top down and set me down right back in Ohio in the 1950’s.  I saw a place where the town diner served the Blue Plate Special of chipped beef on toast (and the cook called it ‘shit on a shingle’); where girls ‘going steady’ wore their boy friend’s class ring on a chain dangling over their sweater set and you could send in cereal boxes to win one square inch of Alaska. Continue reading Figuring Out Romantic Love and Family Love →