Want to win some cool bookish stuff without jumping through hoops? You’ll love the No Strings Attached Giveaway Hop! This hop is all about one-entry giveaways, and you don’t have to follow anyone anywhere to enter. (Although I do suggest checking out the other blogs. There are some great ones out there.) Continue reading
On the way back from Arkansas, we stopped at Memphis to walk along the river and have a picnic lunch. I was trying to finish off an almost-empty bag of potato chips, so I dumped a small pile of mostly crumbs and little pieces on each of their plates. I got a whopping five tiny pieces. When I said, “I guess I didn’t want any chips anyway.” Jeffrey said, “Silly Mama, chips are for kids.” Continue reading
April is Autism Awareness Month. This hop will feature books about autism or posts about autism along with giveaways on each blog. I’m giving away a copy of What I Wish I’d Known About Raising a Child with Autism by Bobbi Sheahan and Kathy DeOrnellas, Ph.D. You’ll have your choice of a Kindle ebook (You don’t have to have a Kindle to read it. There are several free Kindle apps.) or a paperback. You get a choice because I’m not giving up my copy so I’ll be ordering one for you. If you know how picky I am about the books I keep, that should tell you how awesome this book is. You can read my review here.
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Amazon summary
Bobbi Sheahan, mother of a child with autism, and psychologist Kathy DeOrnellas, Ph.D., did not write this book to lecture you on how to parent your child. Instead, they offer themselves as your scouts in the field, who have valuable information to share—from the moment you realize your kid is different (“My, what a quiet baby I have!”), to the self-righteous moms on the playground, to holding your marriage together in the realm of routines. Continue reading
Amazon summary
For the past five months Essallie Hanley has been trying to forget about the frightening murder of her boyfriend. Haunted by vivid nightmares and hallucinations of the event she does anything she can to pretend she’s like every other normal girl in High School.
Only Essallie is far from normal. Able to conjure blue fire and a shimmering silhouette of wings from her body, she seeks the only known solace left to her name; her first home in Belfast, Maine. Continue reading
A few weeks ago, my friend Amy shared on Facebook that her son Jonathan was planning to spend a year doing mission work in Cameroon, West Africa. With her permission, I’m sharing her post, with the hope that it touches you as much as it touched me.
When Jonathan started college two years ago he told his father and me: “I promise to spend two years filling up my mind if you then give me a year to empty my heart.” Continue reading
A few weeks ago, I shared a few spam comments I’d received. I won’t do it too often because there’s really nothing new. The companies that hire the people to post the spam comments on blogs pretty much use the same comments. Mostly what I found funny about the following comments was the particular posts they were on. Continue reading
