Reader | Writer | Serious Coffee Drinker
Between the influence of two good friends (*coughAnnaSaracough *) I have become a regular YouTube junkie. You seriously can find just about anything on there! Here are a few of my favorite channels: John Greene’s Crash Course — all things nerdy. Seriously. Crash Course covers everything from literature to history to science (not to mention he’s kinda my nerdy author… Read More
In our quest to eat healthier, we’ve started “making up” some yummy dishes. Egg scramble is one of our (my) favorites. Two months ago, I could hardly eat scrambled eggs or an omelet without cheese—not that cheese is particularly bad for you, but I felt like we (I) ate way to much. Now I don’t even notice that my eggs… Read More
Last month we semi-spontaniously decided to go watch a friend’s daughter play soccer. Being March, and being Arkansas, the weather wasn’t cooperating and it was just cold enough that I couldn’t get away with wearing my go-to maxi skirt, t-shirt, and cardigan. It took me (and Andy) no less than 20 minutes to find something in my drawers to wear… Read More
Before I jump into talking about getting back with your goals after already feeling like a failure, two things. (1) Over the weekend I just happened to figure out how to enable for you to sign up to receive posts via email. I youtube-ed it and smacked my forehead at the easiness of it. So be sure to sign up…. Read More
* 1. No. We haven’t watched Frozen 8,976,345 times since last Tuesday. That’d just be silly. 2. Love this post on writing reviews from The Write Conversation. 3. Trying to make a serious game plan about how to get to conference in September. It’s a lot of money, and I need my manuscript finished. Toying with the idea of self-publishing… Read More
title: Shatter Me author: Tahereh Mafi genre: YA Fiction thoughts: This one was an interesting one for me (just finished it last night). I loved the author’s flowery prose until the end . . . then it bordered on annoying. And I’m not 100% sure how I feel about the ending. Don’t get me wrong, I still love the book,… Read More