Having been married and then single for longer than the marriage lasted, I was intrigued with the book, The Art of Arranging Flowers . First, I love flowers. To read all about why Ruby picked certain flowers for certain reasons amazed me. I want to know if florists really do that. I also want to learn more… Continue reading The Art of Arranging Flowers – A Book Review
What an amazing journey! Have you ever sat on a bike for more than an hour? I know that I could not ride the distances that Brian and Rachel did in this book. More important than the fitness necessary for the journey are the life lessons that are learned throughout Going Somewhere. Brian had to… Continue reading Going Somewhere – Book Review
Dee Williams takes a life changing moment and makes it a new part of her life in her memoir The Big Tiny. While the book is ostensibly about Williams and her building of a tiny house, so many other parts of the book resonated with me and I have little or no desire to live… Continue reading The Big Tiny – A Book Review
I’m not talking about inability to stand on one foot for very long. I’m also not talking about the fact that if I were to take a field sobriety test I would likely fail it stone cold sober. I have no balance. Today, as I was looking over where I am on my goals for… Continue reading Balance
Years ago, probably more than 16 years, a friend of mine recommended Jan Karon’s novels about an Epsicopalian priest in a small North Carolina town. The setting enamored me and the characters, particularly Father Tim, had me buying the entire series and all those books associated with the series. I think I may have found… Continue reading Superior Justice – A Book Review
I read Anne Lamott’s newest book, Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope and Repair, back in October of last year. The book hit shelves the end of October. My reading was prior to its release date thanks to Penguin’s First to Read program. Do you know how to sew? Do you care? What happens when… Continue reading Stitches – A Book Review
I don’t think I truly coherently – and I may not be coherent about it again this year – wrote down any goals for 2012. I did post my running goals on my profile at Dailymile.com but did not blog about them extensively. This year I have more goals, though not resolutions. These are goals… Continue reading 2013 Goals
How is your relationship with food? I know when I get in one of those funks about what I “have” to eat to stay healthy and what I “want” to eat to make myself happy, I want to talk out my thoughts with a good friend. That good friend attitude is what I found when… Continue reading Real Moms Love to Eat – A Book Review
I just finished Anne Lamott’s Imperfect Birds. The problem is now I will be suspicious of everything my children ask to do as I have an almost 17 year old who is about to start the summer before his senior year in high school. Do I think he is similar to Lamott’s Rosie? Absolutely not.… Continue reading Imperfect Birds: A Book Review
When first approached to review Michael Feuer’s The Benevolent Dictator, I was hesitant. How could another book be written on how to start and build a buisness? Is there really a new way to do this? In the end, my hesitancy is what convinced me to read this book. I knew a publisher would not… Continue reading The Benevolent Dictator – A Book Review
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