Earlier this year, a friend and fellow book lover Rebecca Schinsky wrote a piece for Book Riot about her “radical reading (unplan).” In it, she argued that the best way to decide what to read is to throw away all of the book lists: Delete the anxiety-inducing, peer pressure-based apps. Break up with the social [...]
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I’ve mentioned the beautiful scarf that my sister got me for Christmas a couple of times, but neglected to share some of the best details about it. Hence, this post that originally appeared on Book Riot. My sister is notoriously good at picking out Christmas presents, but this year she really outdid herself with my [...]
February is my least favorite month of the year. In general, I am not a fan of winter (as anyone who reads this blog for more than a week surely knows), but I have reasons to appreciate every other winter month besides February. In November, the cold weather is new and exciting. In December, there’s [...]
Anyone who is a bookworm knows that words have power. Words matter and the words we choose in our lives can make such a difference in how we see the world. This year I decided to try a new way of inspiring change in my own life by joining One Little Word 2014, a year-long [...]
As I mentioned last Sunday, I am taking all of next week off from work. Well, mostly off work. I don’t have to go into the office but, depending on how much work I get done today, I may have to do some writing and editing from home. That said, a few hours of work from [...]
The boyfriend and I are moving again next weekend… again. I thought when we found the house we’re renting now, we’d be able to stay for most of our time in small town Minnesota, but earlier this summer our landlord decided to sell the house. It hasn’t sold yet, but we decided we couldn’t stay in a place where we’d have no guarantees after our original lease was up. It’s been a stressful time, trying to decide if we should move and then where to go — the rental market in this area is terrible — but I’m glad it’ll be done with in a week.
I mentioned in passing in May that my grandpa has been having some health problems. Last week, after a few months of slow improvement, his health took a turn for the worse. After about a week in hospice care, he passed away last Tuesday night at 84.
Because I’m the family writer, I was drafted to help work on the text that will be featured on the back of the program at his visitation this afternoon. In sprucing up the draft my dad sent me, I learned some things about my grandpa that I never knew.
Jeanne at Necromancy Never Pays (what a great blog name!) sent me some questions last week to answer as part of that five questions thing that is going around. Jeanne asked me some great questions, so enjoy! 1. Have you ever bought a novel or recommended it to others based on a strong opinion or [...]
I’ll be gone from Thursday – Sunday volunteering with Minnesota YMCA Youth in Government. I get to spend four days hanging out at the Minnesota state capitol (pictured left), hanging out with some of the best high school students I can imagine working with. I’ll be without internet, a state I find almost tragic, but [...]
If you haven’t seen it already, I just read this post sharing that Dewey (The Hidden Side of a Leaf) passed away last week. I’m not really sure what to say except that this is obviously an indescribable loss for her family and friends. It’s also a huge loss for the book blogging community. I [...]
