Bonnie's Books

Cults Like Us: Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America ~ by Jane Borden, 2025, cultural anthropology, 304 pages This colorful and enlightening...

Here's a STORY that I posted in early 2007 on another of my blogs, a blog I called Words from a Wordsmith .  It's a long story, so ...

I was reading the last essay in Oliver Sacks' 2015 memoir Gratitude when I encountered a word I've never used, though it was obviou...

Self-Care Bingo Back in March, a couple of weeks after our lockdown began, I posted this Self-Care Bingo card.  This seems like a good tim...

Chattanooga telephone directory, September 1944 A woman named Cathy posted this picture in the "You Know You're From Chattanoog...

For Christmas 2003, I gave each of my grandchildren a piece of history, a story about their ancestors.  Everyone got a different tale, whi...

For Christmas 2003, I gave each of my grandchildren a piece of history, a story about their ancestors.  Everyone got a different tale, whi...

My dad was born on October 9, 1918.  That's one hundred years ago today.  This photo was probably taken in 1945 or late 1944, when he ...

Mildred Inez Reynolds Setliffe (1917-2004) My favorite photo of my mother was taken in 1987, the year she turned 70.  Today marks a cent...

My father was born on October 9th, 1918.  That's 99 years ago!  This photo is from World War Two, probably about 1945.  He died in tra...

Similar to my dad's grave, but 50 years later. FLOWERLAND When Grandpa got died Us went to him's house But he wasn't the...

The title says it all: family matters. We could take it either of two ways, as an assertion that family DOES matter, or that the book take...