You may not know it now when reading often feels like work, but reading a book can transport you to another world, immerse you in another culture and broaden your horizons. It's like traveling in an armchair. From the first words of some books, I am gone 'til some tiny hand pulls me back. "It is a truth universally acknowledged…" "There was a boy called Eustace Clarence ...
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Review: Mom Made Us Write This in the Summer
I received this book just before Christmas and had hoped to have a review for you long before now. Better late than never, I hope. When the book arrived, it disappeared…which is a good sign because I found my daughter reading it nonstop over the next few days. She loved it from the first page. Mom Made Us Write This in the Summer is the summer journal of twins Maggie and Max ...
Make-It-Yourself Monday: Chicken Enchilada Suizas (Cookbook Review)
I am all about easy dinner because, let's face it, the hours of 4 to 6 p.m. are usually the hardest of the day. Truly, if I haven't planned ahead, my husband usually comes in to find me with a blank face, frozen as solid by panic as the meat I just pulled out of the deep freeze. Meanwhile, my children run around howling very much like the Lost Boys prancing around the fire in Peter Pan. It's ...
Notes from Nana: What is your legacy?
Have you ever had deep thoughts…and then what actually comes out your mouth is so simple. I was thinking about the word legacy and the concept and how it applied to my life as my husband drove us over the Strong River and through the Mississippi woods to read at a school at the edge of our county. Out loud I only said: “What a legacy. All across America, everyone is reading!” Bill said, ...