Amazon Will Clean Your Home For A Charge & Other Links

It’s hard to avoid mentioning Amazon at least once during the day.  Amazon has become the daily supplier of everything to millions of people.  Who doesn’t receive a package from the online retailer at least once a week?  We get one almost every day…  Now Amazon is also offering cleaning service, really… read more about it here.

Who is ready to start winding down at an outdoor restaurant terrace while enjoying good food.  Food and Wine recently listed The Restaurants of the Year 2018.  “The restaurants we fell in love with this year were the ones that offer a rich portrait of the people who made them.  They remind us that a good meal can capture the spirit of a place as sharply as a postcard” F&W.  Get to know them here.

One of my favorite authors has always been Gabriel Garcia Marquez.  I have read many of his books and One Hundred Years of Solitude about three times in my life.  Twice in Spanish and once in English.  If you haven’t yet, you have to read it.  If you don’t believe me, believe William Kennedy when declared that the novel should be required reading for the human race.  It’s that good.  And while you are there get to know other Latin American authors by reading one of these 7 Life-Altering Books by Latino Authors, here.

Mother and Child book

Sometimes I feel that I became an adult after giving birth to my son.  After having him my whole life perspective and feelings changed for the better.  I feel I have to thank him for the maturity I owned today.  Claiborne Swanson Frank’s new book Mother and Child captures motherhood by photographing 70 iconic modern mothers.  In this interview, she explains what motivated her to make this book.