Artistas and fashionistas, hello! Taking full advantage of having recently tidied my fashion haus of all cobwebs and dust bunnies for last week’s capsule wardrobe post. Opening it up again today for another SIA, Style Imitating Art post. The inspiration art work for today is a poster advertisement for “Cleopatra” starring Theda Bara. Jen […]
Reading Challenge Progress, 06.2018: The Librarian Of Auschwitz
Dearest readers, Welcome to another Book by Book reading challenge review. For May, we were tasked with reading a true story. Here is the graphic for each month’s prompt. Would love to have you join us! I chose The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe. Described by the author in his Postscript at the back […]
ReDiscover ME, 02.2018: Life’s Transitions
Dear ones, Do you ever think to yourself that life, your life, is flying by? Weren’t we just looking forward to autumn and somehow it’s now winter (in the northern hemisphere, vice versa for the southern)? Believe it or not, just yesterday I was a single mother, full-time elementary school librarian with a host of […]
Currently, 12.16
Friends, You might want to pinch yourselves, but you aren’t dreaming! I am actually writing blog posts two days in a row. Dreamy, I know, but you are wide-awake and I am…well, I am still in bed but awake, none-the-less. Always enjoy a writing a Currently post, so when I came across my friend Michael […]
31 Days of Children’s Books, Day 23
Hello, gentle readers, I originally wrote this post as a part of my 2015 “Summer Slide” series. The summer slide is the two+ months of academic knowledge lost by school age children during summer vacation. [source] The greatest losses are in the area of mathematical computation among all students and in math and reading among […]
31 Days of Children’s Books, Day 21
TGIF, my friends! At last the weekend is upon us. Hope you have something fun planned. I am hoping to be able to check off a couple more activities from my autumn bucket list by Sunday evening. We are three weeks into this “31 Days of Children’s Books”. Twenty-one days down, ten to go. This […]
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