“Just make a mark and see where it takes you.”            Peter H. Reynolds, The Dot  

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I am currently enrolled in a beautiful on-line class called Blogging from the Heart, taught by the wonderfully talented Susannah Conway. During the class, I have been motivated, inspired and intimidated in equal measure. Through this class, my list of ‘to be blogged’ is almost as long as my list of ‘to be read.’ Here […]

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** Image: Nishant Choksi Back on January 2nd, I published my 2013 reading goal. I set out to read three adult and three children’s/middle grade/YA books per month. This month I got pretty close. On the adult side of things, I read Wool (yes, I am pretending this is a book although I know it is a […]

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  With each passing Groundhog’s Day, we get another year away from my Dad’s death. It’s been six years now. As I looked back for pictures to include with this post, I stumbled on this one. This picture certainly never made a frame and I probably looked away from it the first time I saw […]

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 “Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury. Play is a necessity.”                                                                         -Kay Redfield […]

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While the January light has reinvigorated the photographer in me that hasn’t really been around since high school, it has not done great things for our time outside. All our indoor time inspired me to write a collection of ideas for indoor reading games. Enjoy! Roll a Letter: Sitting on the floor, roll a ball […]

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Yesterday was my Super Bowl. The 2013 Youth Media Awards were announced and this year, the American Library Association provided a live web cam so that book lovers around the world could watch the announcements live. It was so fun to feel like I was in the room when the winners were announced. As usual, […]

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In our part of the world, it has been frigid. Well, not as frigid as other parts of the world, but pretty darn cold if you ask me! We have been inside, inside, inside so we have had plenty of time to read, craft, cook and play. Below is an assortment of recently published books […]

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“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.” -W. Somerset Maugham (as found in the fabulous book The Book Whisperer by Donalyn Miller) Even waiting for the dentist…. Note: Caroline is reading (and loving!) Penny Dreadful by Laurel Snyder and Katherine is reading […]

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A few weeks ago, I posted a quote that really got me thinking. The quote read, “If my child had only my actions to watch today, what would he have learned?” I worried about this a lot as did a few of you who mentioned reading it and thinking of all the not so good […]

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