I daresay most, if not all the people who read this blog are aware that reading to children is a wonderful thing to do. Many of the readers here also know that a child is never too old to be read to.     Some of my greatest childhood memories involve my mom, my brother, […]

Sorry, if I fooled you. This is not a post about The Hunger Games.   Once again I realize there’s been a whole lot of “mom” and not a lot of “married” in these parts. What better time than right now to change that?   My marriage is one of the things I am most […]

Though John and I are often tempted to trade in our only-phone-call-and-text-message-ready cell phones for something like iPhones, time and again we resist. For one thing, we don’t want to work two data plans into our budget. For another, I know I get distracted easily enough; I don’t need something else to take me out […]