Tag: twins

• Are you twins? Are you cousins?

  

  Tell us about your first day at something — school, work, as a parent, etc. In 2002 our family embarked upon a monumental adventure: we moved to a foreign country for two years for my husband’s job. I asked for a leave of absence from my longtime job as a commercial real estate paralegal, but…

  michardillo

  December 13, 2025

  Essay

  Catholic school, cousins, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2151, English, first career, international school, literature, paralegal, quadruplets, reading, retirement, second career, teaching, twins

• Book Review: House Swap by Olivia Beirne

  After reading two heavy hitters, Elizabeth Strout’s Tell Me Everything and Ann Napolitano’s Within Arms Reach, both of which I absolutely loved, I needed something lighthearted and fun. This book had popped up recently on my Amazon Kindle Daily Deals, so I added it to my bulging TBR list on my Kindle. I zipped through…

  michardillo

  June 19, 2024

  books, Essay

  book-review, contemporary-fiction, found-family, twins

• Book Review: Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World

  By Anthony Doerr (Published June 12, 2007 by Scribner Book Company) I realize I am late to joining the Anthony Doerr fan club, but I tore through this piece of nonfiction in less than two days. I probably would have finished it in one day had I not stopped so frequently to admire his wide…

  michardillo

  March 23, 2021

  books

  Four Seasons in Rome, France, Italy, nature, Peter Mayle, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Provence, Pulitzer Prize, Rome, twins