It's finally December! Christmas music is everywhere! Do you love it or are you counting down the days until the regular programming is back? Do you have your tree up yet? How do you like to decorate it? Do you do a theme that's the same every year or different every year? My mom and…
This is one of my favorite times of year. Not because I get all kinds of presents. That's fun. I get to give presents. I get to make presents. And people seem to be in a good mood for the season. The music is fun. The decorations are awesome. Hallmark movies are cheesy and happy…
New Living Translation 1 Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good! His faithful love endures forever. 2 Give thanks to the God of gods. His faithful love endures forever. 3 Give thanks to the Lord of lords. His faithful love endures forever. 4 Give thanks to him who alone does mighty miracles. His faithful love endures forever. 5 Give…
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving here in the US and we're gearing up for a feast. We've got checklists for the cleaning and the cooking. I've got table decoration ideas saved on Pinterest. There will be friends and family here. It's going to be quite the day. And then it's time for Christmas music!! But I don't…
I blame it on Homer's Odyssey. You see, a new translation was recently published (November 2017). The first by a female scholar, Emily Wilson. So I absolutely HAD to read it even though I didn't really want to read about all that crazy stuff that Odysseus did and had done to him. But it was…
Last year I picked up the first book the The Lady Janies series by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, Jodi Meadows: My Lady Jane. I did a short review on it last summer. You can find that here. I couldn't wait until the next book in the series came out this summer--right in time for the…
I randomly stumbled on this series because they were all available right away on my library's app. I was hooked. I couldn't listen to any other books in between. I got through them as fast as I could. If you like science fiction, this series is for you. If you like reading about impossible odds,…
I was listening to a great book last week. I listened to it first last year. It's just one of those books that deserve another listen and several more read-throughs, which is why I purchased a used copy. It's called Super You: Release Your Inner Superhero. Now, before you turn up your nose at it…
We have quite the extensive garden here on the farm. In addition to space for the vegetables, we have a large strawberry patch, a large blueberry patch, and so many fruit trees. It's wonderful. But this time of year it's a lot of work. The soil needs to be prepped for planting. Seeds are germinated…
Now before you start the admissions process to that cushy place for people who say they hear voices, I'm talking about the different types of thoughts that go through my head. You know, you have them, too. There's the voice that makes the snarky comments to your boss that you don't say aloud because that…