Dear reader – here you’ll find book recommendations, oddments of different sorts, artwork, and maybe a recipe or two from my Nonna.

The Light Of Ordinary Days
An Irish American Journey of Healing and Homeland
​by Carolyn Brigit Flynn (to be published August 2026)

In this beautiful, spirited memoir, we find ourselves on a far-reaching journey that, in the end, brings us home to what matters. You can read an excerpt in DEEP TIMES JOURNAL. -Regina O’Melveny​​​

THE STORY THAT MUST NOT BE TOLD
by Deena Metzger

“In 1975, a German student Ina Andreae, comes to Los Angeles to study, and later commits suicide. Fifty years later, her brother, Wolfgang Andreae, visits Deena Metzger, who was Ina’s teacher, to ask what she knew. What followed from that alliance is this novella, a fiction that is not a fiction, an unfolding emergence of facts, events and stories, showing us how wounds going back to Hitler still affect us, and their startling resemblance to the grim political dramas of today.”

When I read this profound book, I was moved not only by Ina Andreae’s story, but by the compelling story of her brother who wished to know her better, and by the writer herself and her family’s connection to the events of the time. More than ever this book also informs our present times and the wounds we must tend as our country unravels. -Regina O’Melveny