November 2017

  • Want, Need, Wear, Read

    Want, Need, Wear, Read

    Ah, Christmastime… That wonderful season of joy, smiles, and giving. Giving?! You know it. It’s not about the carols and cookies, the cyber sales and Santa, the Hallmark movies and holiday mania. It’s not about the things you want to GET. It’s more about the things you want to GIVE. Wanting to give is one…

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  • Farewell, old man

    Farewell, old man

    As you may remember, we lost our sweet Nellie in January of this year. Shortly after her passing, our oldest dog, Buehrle suffered some sort of seizure or stroke where he lost his vision, hearing, and mobility for a brief time. We gave him meds, changed his diet, and hoped for the best. He got…

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  • What I’m Working on Now

    What I’m Working on Now

    I am so excited to be in the middle of a new/old project. As you may or may not know, November is National Novel Writing Month. NaNoWriMo is a writing challenge where you try to hit a word count goal of 50,000 words in 30 days. Originally, I thought I would focus on the follow…

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  • Turtles All the Way Down – a book review

    I recently completed reading the latest John Green novel, Turtles All the Way Down. I saw an ad for my local DeKalb Book World saying they had a limited amount of author signed copies. I had seen John speak several years ago in support of The Fault in our Stars and thought, hey, I saw…

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