Category: review
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Food, Academia and Television
Since I’m unemployed, I decided to join my local public library’s book club. The adult services librarian sent me the book list, and I ordered The Last Train to Key West by Chanel Cleeton from The Parisian Phoenix Storefront at Bookshop.org. The next meeting is at 2 p.m. on October…
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A Dentist’s Perspective on Emotional Intelligence
I’ve been living the freelancer’s life these days, while I look for a new full-time job or make the plunge into somehow making Parisian Phoenix a bigger business. The reality probably likes between the two. I’ve met a really cool dentist (yes, those do exist), Dr. Steven Hymovitch, the author…
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A day to #GrowWithGoogle
Yesterday I had the serendipitous fortune to attend two session with Joshua Miller, Pennsylvania’s Digital Coach for Grow with Google. Google has partnered with Main Street America to find certain downtown markets that could benefit from digital coaches that introduce small business people to Google’s tools and how to use…
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Writing Books that Inspire Us
Perhaps “Writing Books that Inspire Us” is not the right title for this one, but “writing books that inspire me” sounds so pretentious. If you’re a regular around here, you might want to skip to the next paragraph as I’m going to cover some basic information you already know. I…
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A chat with Olivia from Chronicles & Coffee
On Tuesday afternoon, I had the delightful opportunity to speak with Olivia Brooks, the host of the podcast “Chronicles and Coffee” and proprietor of a website of the same name. She’s young, still in college, and she started her podcast this year. She’s probably #1 on my people to watch…
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And today’s adventure… Phillipsburg Comic Con with Echo City Capers
Today, Joe Swarctz and Ralph Greco Jr., our own dynamic duo of the Echo City Capers team, exhibited at Phillipsburg Comic Con. Now, as newspaper reporter, Phillipsburg was my home for many, many years. And the communities that feed the Phillipsburg area school district– Phillipsburg proper, Lopatcong Township, Pohatcong Township,…
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Mixing business with pleasure — Angel Ackerman
This post appeared on Angel Ackerman’s personal blog last week, but we thought, in honor of next week’s event for National Independent Book Store Day at Book and Puppet Company in downtown Easton, we would share it here. We want to remind everyone that building a community is important to…
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Books, book reviews and book news
I recently purchased Suzanne Mattaboni’s “eighties novel” Once in a Lifetime and kept it in my purse to keep me company in all the medical waiting rooms. As in my habit, I reviewed the book on Goodreads and tagged the author however I could on social media— and she quoted…
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A new view of a familiar conference, or “because I am a very good assistant.”
Hello, my fellow birds! As publisher of Parisian Phoenix I have made an effort to support as much of the Lehigh Valley literary and artistic community as possible. I was scheduled to volunteer at the Lehigh Valley Book Festival today, as I had tried to be part of the marketing…
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