A community of writers create monthly posts highlighting what they have learned during the last thirty or so days. Each month, I wish I had remembered to join in but I tend to forget every single time. Today though, I finally remembered so here goes! This month I learned that… I am happy when the […]
Read moreHow is this Thanksgiving week already? I feel like I am still shaking sand out of beach bags but apparently time has moved on as time tends to do. All the book lists and book podcasts are focused on family themed titles these days so I thought it would be fun to create one of […]
Read moreToday I am joining Anne at Modern Mrs. Darcy for her monthly reading link-up, Quick Lit. The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly by Stephanie Oakes. I’m cheating a bit because I read this one last month but forgot to write about it. I usually love a cult book or tv show (The Following anyone?) but […]
Read more“Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways. ” -Oscar Wilde
Read more“Autumn… the world’s last, loveliest smile.” -William Cullen Bryant
Read moreI believe that the best advice about writing is to read. As Stephen King writes, ”If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write.” So often my written words are inspired by the words of others. Today and tomorrow the girls don’t have school. It’s the New […]
Read moreIt feels like a really long time since I wrote a picture book posts. Here are some of our recent favorites. Enjoy! This is Sadie written by Sara O’Leary & illustrated by Julie Morstad. Sadie is a little girl with a huge imagination. I am so glad we were able to share a day with her […]
Read moreThis post is inspired by my wise friend, Kathleen Harris. Around lunch time today, a friend came over because her washing machine had broken mid cycle. She borrowed ours to finish her wash. We sat at the kitchen table talking about, appliances, meetings and fundraisers, sports and girl drama. She peeked at her phone and […]
Read moreA few years back I took a great class called 31 Things with the amazing memory keeper, Ali Edwards. The class is meant to generate material to be included in a scrap book but seeing as I don’t scrap book, I used the class to inspire blog posts. I was thrilled to discover that Ali […]
Read moreI often get blog posts ideas from the New York Times Review section. There are just so many thought provoking things going on in there. This week, I found a really interesting article and was drawn to it immediately because of it’s author. Stephen King. I am a few decades late to the whole Stephen […]
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