My grandmother (“Oma”) passed away just before Thanksgiving in 2023. If she were still alive, she would be turning 101 at the end of this month. I still miss her. But there ...
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Charleston Michael || Eleven Years Old!
Dear Charleston, Happy birthday (a day early) to my eleven-year-old! I can scarcely believe it has been ELEVEN years since the happiest day of my life—the day you made me a mama. ...
Books Beyond the Favorites: Bonus Superlatives from My 2025 Reading
My great reading slump of the tail-end of 2025 is well-documented, but stepping back to view the year as a whole, I can’t help but observe that I read a LOT of ...
Quick Lit + January 2026
This first Quick Lit post of 2026 is recapping one of my lowest-ever reading months. I have just five book reviews to share with you today, but we still have some variety, ...
Choosing to Be Present in 2026
A few days before Christmas, the five biggest members of our family formed an assembly line around our dining table to fill mason jars with a Nativity Snack Mix that would be ...
Lately || December 2025
How was your December? Ours was a whirlwind, and also wonderful (minus the whack-a-mole game we were playing with illness in our home all month). I’m recapping the month a day early ...
Two Thousand Twenty-Five: The Highlights!
I recently read that the week between Christmas and New Year’s has a name: Twixtmas! I hope that you are enjoying a lovely Twixtmas season. I always get sad once Christmas is ...
2025 Reading Wrap-Up and My Favorite Books of the Year
It’s time for one of my favorite posts of every year: a big-picture recap of my year in books, with a bunch of nerdy statistics drawn from my MANY reading journals and ...
What I Learned in 2025
I’m going to go on record in saying that 2025 has been one of my favorite years of my adult life. It’s not that it was an easy year, far from it. ...
Quick Lit + December 2025
It was an eclectic reading month, with quite a bit of Middle Grade, a few holiday books, a touch of fiction, and some really good nonfiction. Let’s get to the reviews! FICTION ...