The last thing Lexi Smart recalls is going out with friends and trying to hail a taxi. "'Remember Me" by Sophie Kinsella finds Lexi waking up in a hospital in a new year and she cannot remember anything at all about the past three years. Her amnesia is so severe she barely recognizes her mother and sister and is stunned to find out that she had an executive job and is married. She views a DVD of the wedding but it rouses no memories. Her husband is handsome and rich and agrees to let Lexi come home and have the master bedroom to herself until they become reacquainted. Lexi begins to find her way cautiously in her new life and thinks she is doing well until a handsome architect named Jon tells her they have been secret lovers and that she was about to leave her husband for him before her accident. Lexi is attracted to him but has no memory of him but she does eventually decide that she and Eric are not compatible. She leaves her job and decides to start her own company, to revive battered old friendships and maybe try her luck with Jon. ...more

December 17, 2008

NEW YORK (AP) - Fodor's Travel Publications is out with a new series of compact books called Fodor's In Focus guides. ...more

January 15, 2008

I was watching a memorial TV show honoring diva Beverly Sills. During a taped interview she said something similar to the fact that she was less disturbed thinking: I shouldn't have done that rather than I should have done that. I know that we all have done something in our lifetimes that we regret; things that we feel we shouldn't have done. But for most of us it's been some minor infraction. A venial sin not a mortal one as it were. ...more

October 6, 2007