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  Welcome to Open Book Blog Hop. You can find us every Monday talking about the writing life. I hope you'll check out all the posts: you...

Welcome to Open Book Blog Hop. You can find us every Monday talking about the writing life. I hope you'll check out all the posts: you...

I've been a teacher my whole life. Just ask my cousins and my poor little sister about the days when I forced them to play school with m...

It was my birthday a couple of days ago. On a Thursday. A workday. So, not the best day for celebration, but adult life, you know? It is wha...

Welcome to the first Wednesday of the month. You know what that means! It's time to let our insecurities hang out. Yep, it's the  In...

Critical Read put out a call recently for short nonfiction posts about art that is seeing you through the pandemic. They rejected my submis...

image source My youngest daughter and I both have April birthdays. The last time I had a birthday party, I turned forty-two. She's...

Image source April is normally such a busy month in our family.  We have two birthdays and our dating anniversary to celebrate.  ...

More Disney! (See our earlier thoughts  here ,  here ,  here ,  here ,  here ,  here ,  here  and here ) We've hit a few Disney mov...

More Disney! (See our earlier thoughts here , here , here , here , and here ) To put these in perspective for my daughter, I told her that...

If you've been reading these posts, you already know my husband got us a subscription to Disney Plus, so my daughter (age 12) and I have...