Hosted by Long and Short Reviews. Click here to read everyone else’s replies to this week’s question and here to see the full list of topics for the year. My family lived in Laramie, Wyoming for four years when I was a little girl. We were low income, so my parents came up with all… Read More
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Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge: My Earliest Memory
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Hosted by Long and Short Reviews. My earliest memory involves an apple tree. My family lived in a farmhouse on the edge of a small town in Ohio for the first four or five years of my life. An apple tree was growing in our front yard. As soon as the apples on it grew… Read More
My Best Halloween Memories
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Occasionally, I wander away from the usual topics on this site to share personal stories from my life. Today is one of those days. For about the first decade of my life, my family attended harvest festivals at local churches at the end of October and observed half-price candy day on November 1. (This a… Read More
Top Ten Tuesday: Childhood Favourites
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Hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl This week’s prompt is a cute one. I’m going to try to answer it without mentioning books I’ve talked about here many times before like Harry Potter, Anne of Green Gables, and the Little House on the Prairie novels. Not only will it make this post a bit more… Read More
Why I’ve Decided to Start Walking to Mordor
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When I was a preteen, one of my uncles gave me copies of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings. I read and enjoyed The Hobbit immediately. The Lord of the Rings trilogy took longer to get into. The vocabulary in it kept making me pause to look up words I’d never heard… Read More
The Evolution of My Reading Habits
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My reading habits have evolved a lot over the years. In today’s post, I’m going to start with my earliest memories and share some stories about how my interests and habits have changed over time. Most of these genres are still things I like to read at least occasionally. With that being said, I do… Read More
Top Ten Tuesday: Outrageous Things I’ve Done for the Love of Books
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Hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl You’re all about to hear some funny stories about the outrageous, silly, and memorable things I’ve done for the love of books. For anyone who didn’t already know, I was a preacher’s kid growing up, so the church’s building was basically my family’s second home. We were there two… Read More
Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge: Comfort Foods and Recipes and Whys, Oh My!
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Hosted by Long and Short Reviews. This week’s topic is “Favourite Comfort Foods & Why (& Recipes),” so of course I just had to play around with the wording of it a little in the title of this post in order to sneak in a reference to The Wizard of Oz. I will now proceed… Read More
How Winter Has Changed Over My Lifetime
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Lately, I’ve been thinking about climate change and how the expectations of what winter, or any other season, will be like in the average year are changing. The official graphs and charts that show how rapidly the average temperatures are climbing from one decade to the next are obviously quite important, but I think there’s something… Read More
How to Celebrate Canada Day Like a Canadian
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Today’s post is a little off the beaten path, but I do occasionally enjoy sharing snippets of my life that aren’t related to writing, science fiction, fitness, or mindfulness. As I discussed in Things Nobody Tells You About Moving to Canada, I’m an immigrant. I was born and grew up in the United States. When… Read More
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