Tag: Childhood Stories | Lydia Schoch

A Mindful Approach to Headaches

Disclaimer: This post is not intended to diagnose, treat, prevent, or cure any medical conditions. Please consult with a medical professional if you need medical advice. I’m simply writing about my own experiences here. The first multi-day tension headache I remember experiencing happened at age seven or eight soon after my family moved to Wyoming.… Read More

Why I Blog About Multiple Topics

In: Personal Life

Edited on May 13, 2020 to include two responses to this post: On Blogging and Requiem on Blogging. I’ve been blogging on various sites more or less continuously since I was in college. It started after I read a friend’s blog and realized I could do that, too. Several of the blogs I worked on… Read More

Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge: My Favourite Memory and Why

In: Blog Hops, Personal Life

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

Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge: My Earliest Memory

In: Blog Hops

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

In: Personal Life

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

In: Uncategorised

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

In: Fitness

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

In: Personal Life, Science Fiction and Fantasy

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

In: Blog Hops

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!

In: Blog Hops, Personal Life

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

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