Talking Fitness Thursday: Starting Over
For this week’s Munchkin Monday post, I wrote about my sister moving into our house with her family. They’ve been here for a month as of Tuesday and it’s been an adjustment for all of us, but we’ve...
View ArticleThe Friday 52: Branded, by Abi Ketner and Missy Kalicicki
[This review is based on the ARC (Advance Reader Copy) digital edition published by Month9Books in 2014, and provided by NetGalley.] The single-sentence synopsis: In a dystopian future, Lexi Hamilton...
View ArticleFrom Left to Write: Fundamentally Flawed
A woman who cannot birth a son in a patrilineal environment is — in the eyes of society and often herself — fundamentally flawed. Holy crap, that’s a lot of pressure. In modern, fully developed...
View ArticleThe Friday 52: The Shoemaker’s Wife, by Adriana Trigiani
[This review is based on the NOOK book digital edition published by HarperCollins Publishers in 2012.] The single-sentence synopsis: The Shoemaker’s Wife tells the sweeping, epic love story of Ciro...
View Article52 in 52: Measure Twice, by J.J. Hensley
[This review is based on the ARC (Advance Reader Copy) digital edition published by the Bad Day Books imprint of Assent Publishing in 2014, and provided by the author as part of The Book Wheel’s...
View ArticleA Letter to My Baby Boy on His Third Birthday
My sweetest Joshua, Just like that — as though I merely snapped my fingers — you, my tiny miracle, sprouted from this… …to this. I keep asking myself where the time went. I keep asking myself what I...
View ArticleI’ve Been A Very Bad Blogger.
What a mess I’ve been lately. As I’m sure you’ve noticed — and as Google Analytics has so unkindly reminded me — there’s been very little posting going on around here lately. I’m really sorry; it’s...
View ArticleFrom Left to Write: A Letter to My Dog
When I received my copy of this wonderful little book from the From Left to Write book club, I immediately found myself remembering how much I love cats; if they didn’t make my husband’s body forget...
View ArticleFrom Left to Write: Can You Keep a Secret?
I struggled with choosing a topic or theme to write about for The Mill River Redemption, not only because there were so many to choose from but also because several of my options made me really...
View ArticleFrom Left to Write: A Family Unplugged
You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone… So I was reading Arianna Huffington’s Thrive and, mean as it sounds, her advice to unplug and sleep more made me laugh. I mean, come on now — we live in...
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