All that anyone on TV or radio or messaging on X is talking about this week is the “catastrophic” ice storm and/or heavy snow due to fall over the weekend. Not in Tucson, of course. It’s going to start out in Texas, east of us by a lot, then swing up toward the Northeast. Estimates are 8 to 18 inches of snow, with the areas getting ice being so much worse. I grew up in the Northeast, and I kind of miss snow days. Watching the whiteout conditions while safe and warm inside my

Mail-Order Bride Secret (Montana Mail-Order Brides Book 5) Linda Ford Rating: * * * A lot of the romance novels I’ve read over the past year or two have disappointed me. Partly, that’s because I tend to read books that don’t cost a lot. Seriously, paying $9.99 for a light romance novel that will take less than a week to read just rubs me the wrong way, but charging that much doesn’t bother traditional publishers at all. And so I read a lot of free and discounted indie books.