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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 LifeOne 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, …

Five Great Books for Kids Who Love to Laugh

Sarah White January 30, 2015 Home and Family Life2 Comments

I don’t know if there’s a better way to engage kids in reading than getting them to laugh. The girl loves all kinds of books, but some of her favorites are the ones that are really funny. The other night before bed she said she “needed to laugh,” which got …