White Knuckle Love: A Memoir of Holding by April Stace is a book that I'm reviewing for Speakeasy. For the past few years I've been writing a reading log of all the books I read each month but I'm not doing that anymore. Though from time to time you'll see these reviews when I read… Continue reading White Knuckle Love – Book Review
I've recently found Heather Gerwing's Share Four Somethings linkup and thought that I might add it to my blogging routine for 2021. I think this will replace my once a month reading log. Something Loved My favourite blue chair I love my blue wing back chair in our lounge room . I've been enjoying my… Continue reading Share Four Somethings – January 2021
Many people choose one word as a guide for the year. I've done this for the last few years. I've had Confident Action (yes technically two words but I felt I needed both), Now & Connection. This year my one word is Momentum. Momentum speaks of action and movement. To me it's about moving forward… Continue reading Momentum: My One Word for 2021
Wow, another year is over! Here's all the books I read in December. All of them were fiction and most were read when we were away for about a week before Christmas. 2020 was the 4th year that I kept a reading log. I didn't keep a running tally each month but couldn't help tallying… Continue reading December 2020 Reading Log
I read a couple of fiction books in November when we went away for the weekend. I also finished one non-fiction book I'd read over a couple of months. So here's what I read in November: The Family Gift by Cathy Kelly Freya has just moved house but her blended family is under threat. Dan's… Continue reading November 2020 Reading Log
Here's the books that I read in October. They are all novels and most of them were read when we were at Caloundra on holidays. The Beautiful Mother by Katherine Scholes Set in the early 70's in an archaeologist's camp in Tanzania where Essie Lawrence lives with husband and mother-in-law. She encounters some people from… Continue reading October 2020 Reading Log
It's Children's Book Week here in Australia. A few years ago I wrote about some of the books that my children enjoyed. In this post I'm going to focus on using picture books to talk about faith and life. Picture books often have great life lessons in them or things that children can learn about.… Continue reading Using Children’s Books to Talk about Faith
Well the year is flying by. Here's the books that I read in September. Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear James Clear shares four laws of behaviour change. Through stories and practical examples he shows how you can put these laws into practice… Continue reading September 2020 Reading Log
With the school holidays upon us, I thought I'd share some games for small numbers of children. There are still many places where large numbers can't gather. Most of these games can be played with 2, 3 or 4 children or adults. Some of them can even be played alone. Many of these games I… Continue reading Games for Small Numbers of Children
August seems to have passed in a flash. We celebrated 2 birthdays in our family, I've been working on my digital cookbook and helping my daughter prepare to move interstate. All in all it's meant I haven't written a blog post since the July reading log. Below are the books that I managed to finish… Continue reading August 2020 Reading Log
