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My mornings, I hit the ground running. It doesn’t matter if I plan to get up two hours early or ten minutes early. When momma’s up, everyone’s up. With three kids, one is begging to nurse, one is crying for cereal (“with milk, momma,” I’m always reminded), and one for strawberries with his ever present apple juice. By the time… Read More
Remnants: Season of Wonder introduces us to Lisa T. Bergren’s newest cast of characters in book one of this fast paced, action packed series. Told from the perspective of Andriana, a gifted teen born on the seventh day of the seventh month destined to save the world, known as a Remnant. Readers are taken for a ride as she… Read More
Since we have started eating “cleaner” and “whole” the typical dairy ice cream is off limits. I do love my ice cream, especially during the hot summer months. I was super excited when my mom reminded me that you can make ice cream out of frozen bananas—seriously. The texture very similar, however, you aren’t getting all the sugar and… Read More
Summer is coming. Here’s a post on 50 cheap and easy ways to improve your writing. Did you know that you can read YA fiction for free on Pulseit? Just in time for summers by the pool too. Am I right? My co-worker, Caitlin, re-vamped her office space. I’m in love. Speaking of re-vamping. My #WriteNight buddy, Sara, had a… Read More
title: The Goose Girl author: Shannon Hale genre: YA Fiction thoughts: I really, really wanted to like this one. I just couldn’t get into it. So sad. I love the fact that it was based on a fairy tale—which was the appeal factor for me, but when it came down to it, it just dragged for me. *links are… Read More
title: The Goose Girl author: Shannon Hale genre: YA Fiction thoughts: I really, really wanted to like this one. I just couldn’t get into it. So sad. I love the fact that it was based on a fairy tale—which was the appeal factor for me, but when it came down to it, it just dragged for me. *links are… Read More
thankful that it’s almost time for family vacation loving these Sanku shoes (trying to decide if I need them for vacation or not) determined to finish these last round of edits for this draft on “The Novel” before going on vacation feeling tired after a crazy “solo” weekend and gearing up for three more “solo” days before the weekend (but I’m planning backup)… Read More