Every week is different! I had a much busier week, which tends to make keeping on top of things at home difficult. However, I kept up with everything for the most part. This week was a good reminder that not every day is going to go according to plan. My routine was not perfect, not even close. But I don’t need […]
Hope for My Home Update – Week 2 and Week 3
Inkheart – A Book Review
There was another reason she took her books whenever they went away. They were her home when she was somewhere strange. They were familiar voices, friends that never quarreled with her, clever, powerful friends – daring and knowledgeable, tried and tested adventurers who had traveled far and wide. Her books cheered her up when she was sad and kept her […]
Frequency – A Movie Review
Frequency (2000) Starring: Dennis Quaid, Jim Caviezel Director: Gregory Hoblit Rating: PG-13 for peril, smoking, and suggestive content Summary John Sullivan lost his father in a dangerous warehouse fire 30 years ago. It left a deep wound that seems to continue to affect his life. John is allowing his life to unravel and fall apart, telling himself and others […]
Hope for My Home Update – Week 1
Whew, what a week! I worked only one day last week: Friday. It felt crazy weird and I’m still in a bit of a fog after having so many days off of work (long story short, I finally got the Rona!) Luckily, since I was not sick for very long, I was able to tackle many long-forgotten projects that had […]
Decluttering at the Speed of Life – A Book Review
Living for now became my new goal: living in the house we have, in the city where we are, and in the moment when we’re alive. – Dana K. White I didn’t think I had a problem with stuff. My house is not a […]
My Attempt to Listen to the Advice I’ve Gotten from My Books
Twenty-Eight Days to Hope in Your Home I just wrote a review for Dana K. White’s book Decluttering at the Speed of Life. I am forever changed after reading that book. So of course I picked up her other two books (one of them brand new and you can find it HERE, you’re welcome). I’m not done reading them quite yet, […]
The Meaning of Maggie – A Book Review
I can’t believe you had so much fun being young. I just want to be old and rich and smell like butterscotch. Maggie Mayfield The Meaning of Maggie by Megan Jean Sovern It took me awhile to realize why I had a sense of deja vu while reading this book. It’s a junior fiction novel, […]
Movies That Surprised Me in 2021
I started down the path of becoming a movie connoisseur in 2021. I started my Christopher Nolan binge (worth it!) and realized that I love watching Andrew Garfield and Christian Bale on screen. I branched out. I watched movies I’d never heard of. I watched movies I never thought I would like. In stepping outside my usual comfort zone of […]
2022 Book List
I didn’t quite make my goal of 52 books read last year, but I’m giving it a try again this year! I’ve got so many more books I want to read it’s almost painful to make a limited list. Below I’ve put down my top 25 books that I’m attempting to start and finish this year. It’s a fairly wide […]
2022 Movie List
I’m one of the most inconsistent movie watchers you’ll ever meet. I can get on a roll with movies and watch one a night for a week or two. However, I can also go an entire month without turning the television on. In general, I mostly watch movies I’ve already seen before. This past year I tried to break that […]