Books read in 2023: Hooked: How Crafting Saved My Life Sutton Foster Design Mom: A room by room guide to living well with kids Gabrielle Stanley Blair Write For Your Life Anna Quindlen The Fixer Jennifer Lynn Barnes The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows The City Baker’sContinue reading “reading list: 2023”
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2023 top ten
10: Starting Scouts BSA with four of my five kiddos has been a challenge. When we’re actually DOING SCOUTS – campouts, skills development – life is good and the kids are progressing well. But among the adult leadership, there’s a lot of angry jockeying for power and it’s … not what I expected. My self-appointedContinue reading “2023 top ten”
2022 in review
January: It snowed, and my whole family got Covid. I read a couple of books while I was starting to get better but that’s about it. We didn’t do much. Certainly no editing or writing work. Adam and I had decided at Thanksgiving to move from Connecticut to the Washington DC area in the summer,Continue reading “2022 in review”
7 random things I’ve done
I have a lot of new followers on the Instagram account, so I wrote an introduction post with 7 random things I’ve done: 1 – Adam and I were balloon wranglers in the National Independence Day parade in Washington DC. We were on a team of five that steered an Uncle Sam hat down ConstitutionContinue reading “7 random things I’ve done”
35 LDS temples I’ve been to
I once had a goal to attend every temple on the West Coast, but the Church keeps building more! I don’t even know where they all are – I have to look at the website map. Now I have a goal to get to just get to fifty. The ones in bold have been, atContinue reading “35 LDS temples I’ve been to”
9 writing books
I’m homeschooling myself in writing and editing. My curriculum so far: The Well Educated Mind by Susan Wise Bauer Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport Why We Write About Ourselves by Meredith Maran The Art of Memoir by Mary Karr Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of MakingContinue reading “9 writing books”
38 places for travel plans
My last post is some of my favorite places around the US, but really – my FAVORITE place is anywhere these people are, grumpy faces and all: The places I want to go with them, but haven’t yet, are the Freedom Trail in Boston Rocky Ridge, the Laura Ingalls Wilder farm in Mansfield, Missouri AlaskaContinue reading “38 places for travel plans”
11 places I love in the USA
I love this country. I love the variety of locations, both natural and manmade. I’ve visited over half of the states, and driven through most of the rest of them – I’ve touched down in 42 of the 50. I’ve lived in eight states – California, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Virginia, Maryland, Mississippi, and Connecticut, plusContinue reading “11 places I love in the USA”
12 favorite memoirs
I love memoirs! I love to read them. I love to help people write them. I love that the LDS Women Project is a series of mini-memoirs. Some favorites: The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch The Year of Living Danishly by Helen Russell Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl Becoming by Michelle Obama A WalkContinue reading “12 favorite memoirs”
7 quilt projects
I do like to make pieced quilts. I just rarely take the time for it. Plus, my teenage daughter took over most of my sewing table with her jewelry making beads. She’s getting quite good at making bracelets and earrings, and I’m happy to share my CRAFT table … but I still need part ofContinue reading “7 quilt projects”