The Bookery founder invites us to embrace 2026 with a sense of adventure with our Winter 2026 theme, Explore. During the week after Christmas each year, I usually start thinking about goals for the next year. Not really resolutions, per se, but a few thoughts about who I want to be, things I’d like to do and ideas for how to make those things a reality.  Some of them are practical, like getting some financial things in order. Others are personal, such as reading through the B

The Bookery’s final seasonal theme of 2025 is “Remember,” a call to active remembrance that shapes our daily lives. My brother and one of my good friends from high school seem to have photographic memories of our shared past — but mine are a little more hazy.  Truth be told, I sometimes worry a little about my memory. I don’t remember stats (obscure or otherwise) for my favorite baseball team. Last year, I reread an entire book and was three-fourths of the way through before

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