I hesitate to blog about a book I’m only 29 pages into, except when I don’t. Holy cow and oh my stars. I can’t remember the last time a book started pounding on my soul like this from the minute I opened it. A Certain Risk: Living Your Faith at the Edge by Paul Richardson. My mother-in-law gave me this book a few weeks ago, and it inadvertently got lost under a pile of who-knows-what …
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books are my friends {day 2 of 31}
I love books. Love, love, LOVE books. I’ve tried over the past few years to pare down my collection (and have done a marvelous job, I might add), but I will never, not ever, stop loving books. Since this month is all about CONNECTION, I’m going to connect you with some books that I love so much I consider them friends. The following are 10 books that survived The Purge and still sit on my …
marriage advice for under a buck
I got an e-mail last week from a guy, and it made me smile and shake my head. It also made me wish once again that I kept an automated response on hand to e-mails like this one, because I’VE GOTTEN SO MANY E-MAILS JUST LIKE THIS ONE. The e-mail: I have read about 1/2 of the book Is That All He Thinks About? I have told the wife before about reading books to help …
free is my favorite price
I mentioned last week that my e-book, Once Upon the Internet, would be FREE on Amazon sometime this week. Woohoo! Woohoohoo!! Give me an F! Give me an R! Give me an E! And an E! I spoke too soon. Turns out that an author can’t just make her book FREE on Amazon. The lowest you can go is 99 cents. Bummer. I checked Barnes & Noble. Same. 99 cents. I checked iTunes. Ding ding …
book talk with nina and mom
Ever since Nina (6) learned to read (her big sisters taught her over two years ago, which is awesome, because even though I’m a teacher by trade, I’d rather eat a tarantula than teach a child phonics), we’ve been reading books out loud together. Our favorite place to read used to be the bus stop, followed closely by my bed. Lately, we’ve been hanging out on the couch. The plan is that she’ll have her …
