Kevin Coolidge

A long time ago, in a memory far, far away, I was in a darkened movie theater watching the birth of an epic, but I didn't know that. I was eight years old and watching starships and Wookies and light sabers and things exploding in a fairy-tale made larger than life. It was good battling evil and a grand call to adventure in what was to be the birth of the Star Wars saga, truly a hero's journey.

Your mom changed your diapers, read your favorite bedtime story a hundred times, bandaged your skinned knees. No matter what you made her for Mother's Day, she always loved it, or said she did.

Mansfield, Pa. — Area 51, Flat Earthers, the Moon landing — I enjoy a good conspiracy theory. That’s why I decided to investigate Conspiracy Coffee Co. in downtown Mansfield. People

I’ve been a bookseller going on eighteen years, which equals one hundred and twenty-six years in retail years. Maybe that’s dog years? I forget. Anyway, I’ve met my share of

Apple pie, cold lemonade, people walking their dogs…I'm back. Once I couldn't wait to get home. Now I can't wait to leave. Too loud, too soft, too much. I can't think. I have no patience.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of

Never trust a man who doesn't like cats…Irish proverb Uncanny focus, curious, observant, a dislike for being disturbed — they sit for long periods of time and sleep more than they probably should.

So many books, so little time: it seems hard enough to keep up with all the new books coming out, not to mention the book that you still didn’t read

Before the Internet, before video game consoles, before even computer games, there were Choose Your Own Adventure books inspired by a bedtime story.

When asked to define love, I could not find my tongue. I wished to expound on its nature. To praise a woman whose beauty has launched a thousand ships, for