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Book Review: Attachments
As the weather gets cooler and the daily activities shift more inside, it tends to be the time when people move toward books. While this book was written in 2011, it just showed up on my radar earlier...
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Two Roads
In the early 2000's, I was getting close to finishing my Bachelor's degree, I was looking at graduate schools. I wanted a PhD (I even know what my dissertation would be on). I had miscarried nearly a...
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Grounded and Well-Rounded?
If you have been on the internet at all, you will know that there is this comparison game that is running amok. Some of the strongest versions of it manifest themselves as the "Mommy Wars", but to...
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Tasha's Best Books of 2014 (part two)
Yesterday, I shared five of my favorite books on Thinking Through Our Fingers. I grouped them together as they all had an element or feeling of magic, and they felt like they should all be friends. But...
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Inheriting Characteristics
While sitting at a stop light a few days ago, I had my elbow resting on the console, opening and closing my very sore and tired right hand. It is something that has become nearly automatic as my focus...
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Quilting Our Lives
Like many people, I've been thinking about new goals, resolutions, how to make myself a better person. As I was considering this, and image came into my mind over and over - that of my mom making...
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The Baker's Daughter by Sarah McCoy
This is a book that I heard about when it was first published, and then attention lingered around it as it appeared on the New York Times Bestseller list. I am a sucker for historical fiction,...
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Women's Fiction Spotlight: Rodin's Lover
I've "known" Heather Webb online for a while, and have been impressed with the commentary she shared via social media, both in context to what women can do and the writing craft. I had a suspicion I...
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My Dream for You
Several months ago, I read a post from the incredible Brain Pickings digest that stuck with me. It was a look at some rare illustrations by Maurice Sendak, in a book that is now out of print. I scanned...
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Get A Team
We all have dreams. We all have things we'd like to see happen, whether it be to lose weight, get a promotion, raise polite children, have a loving marriage.I see these dreams a little differently in...
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On Having it All
My goal this year has been to find better balance. Where last year was the time of cutting unnecessary elements from my life, cutting out that which took me away from what I wanted most, this year has...
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Women's Fiction Wednesday: The Dress Shop of Dreams
Okay, first of all, I was totally drawn to The Dress Shop of Dreams by the cover. Seriously, this is stunning. Then I read the description (from Goodreads):Since her parents’ mysterious deaths many...
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Women's Fiction Spotlight: The One That Got Away
I had the opportunity to read Bethany Chase's new book THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY and am thrilled to be part of her share a review with you. Here's the synopsis from Goodreads: Sarina Mahler thinks she has...
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Giving Advice with Love
I have been thinking about advice a lot lately. I wrote about how to consider this advice when in the role of writer earlier this week. Part of this subject being so prevalent is due to what is...
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Living Deliberately
In part because of a new course I'm teaching next year, and in part because I'm in heavy pursuit of a dream, I've developed a renewed interest in people who discuss elements of deliberate living. I've...
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Women's Fiction Spotlight: The Far End of Happy
Over a year ago, I read Kathryn Craft's first book The Art of Falling. I adored it, felt that there were so many aspects of it that related to me as a person. When I saw Craft's second book was coming...
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Women's Fiction Spotlight: At the Water's Edge
Blurb from Goodreads: After embarrassing themselves at the social event of the year in high society Philadelphia on New Year’s Eve of 1942, Maddie and Ellis Hyde are cut off financially by Ellis’s...
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Women's Fiction Spotlight: Maybe in Another Life
I'd heard of Taylor Jenkins Reid for sometime before I finally got around to reading a book by her. I knew she was masterful at contemporary stories and that she could elicit great emotional responses...
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Women's Fiction Spotlight: Lost Lake
Blurb from Goodreads: Suley, Georgia, is home to Lost Lake Cottages and not much else. Which is why it's the perfect place for newly-widowed Kate and her eccentric eight-year-old daughter Devin to...
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Women's Fiction Spotlight: The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster
I was super excited to get a copy of this book, in part because I know Scott, know that he is an incredibly generous, kind-hearted, hilarious guy, and because the premise, the cover, and everything...
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Find Wonder Every Day
Several years ago, I came across this TED talk by Elizabeth Gilbert. If you are a fan of either her or TED talks, I'm sure you've watched it at least once. I come back to it yearly, when I'm full of...
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Filling the Pitcher
I was recently teaching a group of youth in my church and we were talking about the nuances of being a parent. I had them list some of their concerns, which ranged from dropping the baby to how to...
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I recently attended a webinar by Jeff Goins. I found out about him because Jamie Raintree set up a group and had it as a book of the month to read. I highly recommend reading The Art of Work because it...
View ArticleThe Nuances of a Balanced Life
Nearly every week, I come across something that tells me the latest and greatest trick to having a balanced life.“Work out first thing in the morning!"“Prepare all your meals for a week!"“Clean for...
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Deliberate Determination
One of the best things that happened to me in 2015 was that the little reading I did get in (little meaning just over 20 books) proved to be quality. In particular, Jeff Goins'The Art of Work and...
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