Isms: Views on life in rural America

One goal for 2026: Read more books.

I finished three (gasp!) in 2025. That’s a far cry from the 50 to 60 books I read annually during my teaching years. My reading days began dwindling when I started working at the newspaper in 2013. The upside: I read a lot more newspapers and professional articles related to the media industry.

I miss reading. I miss finding myself immersed in setting and characters and plot lines. I miss whodunits and true crime novels, my favorite genre, which began years ago by reading every Nancy Drew mystery I could get my hands - and eyes - on.

January is Book Blitz Mo...