What Do You Want to Make Today?
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 me. We are readers in […]
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 we want our kids to […]
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 I wanted to do a […]
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 from a collection of used […]
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, by the way — Portrait […]
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, but I do like to […]
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 me thinking about our go-to […]