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…
You know, when you look into starting a blog there are all kinds of websites out there that have advice for how to run your blog. You have to post so many times a week/month. You have to post only about things in your niche. What is your niche? You have to decide what your…
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…
Power Plays One of the truest tests of someone's character is how they handle any power that is given to them. Some people use it to get what they want. They bully. They coerce. They blame. They take advantage of anything and everything their position of power presents. They are focused on making a difference…
The day after Labor Day, my hubby and I took some friends to the Point Defiance Park. We decided to go visit the rose garden. And they have dahlias there. And fuchsias. And we spent a couple of hours walking around among all of these amazing blooms. I got to smell a bunch of roses. …
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've never had a good relationship with my body. I haven't had an eating disorder. I wasn't a child beauty pageant contestant. I didn't participate in any sort of extracurricular activity that you would think could lead to issues with my body. Rather, I was raised in a very conservative Christian home. We talked about…
I love tea. It all started with the peppermint tea my mom gave me as a baby to calm my tummy. I stuck mainly to herbal tea until I was through college. I made it through college without coffee! That's because caffeine was a thing that we just didn't do. It was one of those…
When I was 10, we moved into an apartment that had a gas furnace in the floor between the bedroom I shared with my sister and my brother's bedroom. There was no door. Just a curtain. And that furnace made all kinds of noise, especially at night. I don't think I dreamed about fire or…
Before you ignore this post and write it off as too legalistic or something like that, keep reading... I was pondering things, as I do, this morning. My brain likes to ponder things. And I was saying one of my morning prayers as I was getting ready to go outside to let the chickens out…