First, here are just a bunch of pictures from recent weeks: Recent Friday night dinner. Came home from work to find Justin ready for a bath. Rose’s request for face paint at school. (It’s a beaver. God bless kindergarten teachers!) Girls wanted a picture of the outfits they chose for school. Packed a picnic as… Continue reading February 2023: Some Recent Life
Here were my 2022 Reading Goals: Read 80 books Review 70 of those books. Read 10 translated works. Read 20 books that I already own. Read 20 books that have been on my TBR since before 2020. Read the entire Bible, following a daily devotional called One Year Praying Through the Bible for Your Kids… Continue reading 2022: What I Read
newest book from the author of Little Fires Everywhere and Everything I Never Told You Set several years after a national crisis Kind of like the Covid-19 pandemic and fallout but not exactly the Covid-19 pandemic and fallout. Like our pandemic though, the result was increased racism against Asian-Americans Hopefully unlike any of our governments,… Continue reading (Point Form) Book Review: Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
In an effort to catch up on a few book reviews before 2022 ends, I'm going to try something a little different. Each day this week I will publish a book review but instead of going into great detail, I will write a point form book review and focus on a few highlights. Here we… Continue reading (Point Form) Book Review: And Yet by Kate Baer
I received an Advance Readers' Copy of this book. All opinions are my own. Erin has never been able to disentangle herself from her complicated relationship with Silas. Alternating between friends and lovers, even when she tries to draw a hard line boundary with him, nothing seems to stick. He is the leader of their… Continue reading Book Review: Ghost Eaters: Clay McLeod Chapman
What is all this juice and all this joy?A strain of the earth’s sweet being in the beginningIn Eden garden. - Have, get, before it cloy, Before it cloud, Christ, lord, and sour with sinning,Innocent mind and Mayday in girl and boy, Most, O maid’s child, thy choice and worth the winning.“Spring”, Gerard Manley Hopkins… Continue reading 2022 Highlights: Week 13
Chorus - Rebecca Kauffman (Counterpoint, 2022) I received an Advance Reading Copy of this book. All opinions are my own. On sale March 1, 2022 Chorus earns its title from the chorus of voices portrayed throughout this book. There are seven Shaw siblings, as well as their parents, and we follow them through their childhood… Continue reading Book Review: Chorus by Rebecca Kauffman
In 2021 I read 74 books. This was short of my goal of 100 books for the year but still a number I feel proud of. I've set the goal of 100 books for the past 3 years and only reached it in 2019 and I'm beginning to wonder if setting a goal number is… Continue reading What I Read – 2021
Bookish: As I've said before, 2020 was not the year for reaching grand book goals. So I'm hesitant to set big goals for this new year. At the same time, setting goals helps me to ensure I'm spending my time the way I want to spend it. In both 2019 and 2020 I set a… Continue reading 2021 Goals
We're somewhere around 5 or 6 weeks into this current lockdown. About two weeks ago it was extended to January 8th and while I don't believe that the government is (or even has the power to) cancelling Christmas, there have been the ups and downs of emotions surrounding that announcement. We are, however, very fortunate,… Continue reading Life Lately: Lockdown Week ???
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