2016 was a huge reading year for me—in fact, it’s the biggest reading year I’ve had as an adult since I started faithfully tracking all my books (back in 2011). Ranking books is always a hard process because different books bring up different feelings and fulfill different needs, but I decided to pick the top …
Today is Teacher Prep Day, and even though I technically had the “day off,” my eyes have been bugging out of my head since 5:15 this morning trying to get all my grading done before the deadline early tomorrow morning. I have literally spent over 20 hours this “long” weekend grading, and now that I …
I have always been a bit obsessed with taking pictures—it was an obsession that started with the disposable cameras of my girls’ camp days that has continued (with ever increasing enthusiasm) to my latest DSLR purchase. In my friend circle growing up, I was generally the one who could be counted on to capture everything …
Like most women (I imagine), I have a lot of ups and downs about my appearance. There will be weeks or months when I feel down about my appearance or my weight or some other superficial thing, and there will be weeks (sometimes months) when I feel like my skin sparkles in the sun like …
Something I’ve noticed lately is that there aren’t really any great chick flicks being made anymore. So many of the movies coming out feel the constant need to throw sex, explicit language, and violence at us to make them more “exciting” to the point that the story gets lost in the muck. Plus they keep …
