Ten Simple Things That Are Saving My Life This Winter

Congratulations! If you’re reading this, it means that you survived the month of January, and if your month was anything like mine, that’s a feat worth celebrating. This January brought all the ...

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2023 Reading Wrap-Up and My Favorite Books of the Year

If there’s anything I love as much as (if not more than) reading, it’s tracking and documenting my books. Which is why my annual reading recap is one of my favorite posts ...

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28 Perks of Life in 2023

I have dedicated a lot of brain space (and blogging words) to grieving the ways our world has changed in my lifetime. I hate the moral decline we are witnessing, the elevated ...

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Ten Lovely Things Saving My Life This Winter

Over the past year, Charleston and I have logged many math-lesson hours studying the ins and outs of how to study and use a calendar; hence, our recent discussion on the subject ...

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Bookish Superlatives from My Reading Life in 2022

As much as I enjoy compiling a list of my favorite books at the end of each year, it’s consistently a challenge to narrow that list down to a reasonable number of ...

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Two Thousand Twenty-Two: The Highlights

On this December 31st—Day 365/365—it seems fitting to zoom back the lens for a bird’s eye view of the year. In many ways it was an entirely ordinary year for me and ...

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2022 Reading Wrap-Up and My Favorite Books of the Year

Oh, the day after Christmas—unquestionably the saddest day of the year. Its saving grace is its positioning at year’s end, which is prime time in internet circles (and personal journals) for all ...

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28 Underrated Christmas Gems (Those Movies, Books, and Songs I Love That You Might Not Know About Yet)

This time of year, one of my favorite discussion starters with friends, family, and even strangers met in line at the post office is to ask their favorite Christmas movies, books, and ...

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Lately // November 2022

I heard someone say recently that November is nobody’s favorite month. I quite like November, but I fear that in my rush to the Christmas season this year, I did not give ...

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Chill Summer Thursdays: To All the (Nonfiction) Books I’ve Loved Before

Two weeks ago I took you all on a walk through my historical bookshelves with a list of my all-time favorite novels from the past several years. Today I’m sharing a similar ...

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