Mother's Day is next Sunday. If you haven't figured out a gift for the special lady (ladies) in your life, here are a few ideas that you can get or make this week! photo credit One of my favorite things to give for Mother's Day gifts is something the kids have made themselves. The grandmas in our lives love seeing the kids' creative side come out, and the kids have fun making them, probably because I usually choose something involving paint. images are from the sites listed … [Read more...]
Books I’ve Read: April 2017 (Armchair Travels)
Armchair traveling means visiting a culture outside your own without leaving your chair. Being immersed in the sights, smells, tastes, and feelings of a particular place, sometimes to the point that you lose track of where you actually are. This month's reads definitely had me doing some traveling. At Home in the World: Reflections on Belonging While Wandering the Globe by Tsh Oxenreider. I was part of the launch team for this book, so I got the ebook a few weeks ahead of the April … [Read more...]
Want Twelve New Cookbooks For Less Than You Think?
I'm always on the lookout for good cookbooks. I like trying new flavors and combinations I wouldn't have thought of. I like learning new cooking skills. And I like when someone else has done all the work of figuring out what works, especially when it comes to cooking from scratch. I'm really picky about what cookbooks stay in my house, so sometimes it's easier to just give up and stick with what I've been using. But when I can get a whole bunch of new cookbooks along with several other … [Read more...]
Home: Impossible To Locate On A Map
Defining home has always been tricky for me. I could never quite pinpoint it to a specific place, at least not permanently. And a lot of times, this ended up being pretty lonely. For those who have lived in the same place all of their lives, moving every few years and wanting to travel frequently seems bizarre. To them, I must be crazy to keep uprooting, to keep leaving just when things have started to get comfortable. How can the reasons to leave outweigh the reasons to stay? We look at … [Read more...]
Books I’ve Read: March 2017 (Happy Fiction, Weird Fiction)
This month I dove into fiction. I love a good story, one that gets me completely immersed in the world and the characters, and keeps me coming back for more, to the point that I pick up my book instead of making food or doing housework or even picking up my phone. This month, I read a few of those books. The Royal We by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan. I got this one from the library, and the cover was way cuter than the one currently on Amazon. If you care about book covers. This … [Read more...]
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