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5 Ways to Improve Literacy Where You Live

I’m a part of the Northwest Arkansas Bloggers (join us if you’re local!) and this month is the first month we are taking part in #NWArkCares, an initiative to have bloggers give a voice to important causes. This month it’s literacy, which you probably know is a great one for …

Get Free Books for Your Kids or Your Class with Kellogg’s

Sarah White July 21, 2015 Home and Family LifeLeave a comment

This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #Back2SchoolReady #CollectiveBias We are a family that loves to read. That’s pretty well documented. The girl is starting to want to read books on her own, and we’re always picking up new books …

Notions: Kids, Technology and Vacations

Sarah White July 13, 2015 Kids / Life / NotionsLeave a comment

This is the first of what I hope will be a weekly series of posts about cool things I’ve found on the Internet, hopefully all on some kind of a theme. We’ll see. One thing I think every good parent has in common with every other good parent is that …

Mixed-Paper Collage Bookmark

Sarah White July 8, 2015 Crafts / Iron Craft / Paper Crafts and DrawingOne Comment

I’m a day behind on the Iron Craft Challenge this week (because it was book launch day yesterday), but the idea was to create something using words. The first thing I came up with was making a bookmark, because it seems like we always need more of those. I decided …

Learning to Write with William Zinsser

Sarah White June 8, 2015 Home and Family LifeLeave a comment

In his book, On Writing Well, William Zinsser says all writers should read E.B. White’s The Elements of Style once a year. I feel the same way about his book, though admittedly I hadn’t read either for a while. I pulled out my copy of On Writing Well — procured …

How to Read More Books

Sarah White May 4, 2015 Home and Family LifeLeave a comment

It’s been almost six months since I announced my quest to read more women authors. It has not been going well. In my defense, I started with a super-long book, The Tale of Genji, which took me exactly 100 days to read. Then I sailed through — and totally loved, …

Three Great Unconventional Princess Books

Sarah White March 6, 2015 Home and Family LifeLeave a comment

It seems like princesses are everywhere these days, and if you have a girl, even if she also loves things like space and animals (like mine does), she’s probably going to be into princesses, too, at least a little bit. I’m not a big fan of the typical princess story, …