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Rediscovering Life after Retirement

  • Craft
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      Crafting and cookery and other creative Did It Myself endeavors.
  • Family
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    • Family and Friends
      Doing what I love with those I love most.
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      Revamping myself from the outside in.
  • Life
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      Adventures from various chapters in my life – past, present, future.
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      Rediscovering who I am and my journey along the way.
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      Book, movie, product reviews and reflections.

February 23, 2020

Title Talk 02.2020

Dear Readers, welcome to Title Talk, 02.2020. Haven’t posted a book review since 10.2019 when I shared my review of The Girls at 17 Swann Street by Yara Zgheib. That book was my online book club’s choice to read for October. I devoured it. With my ears on Audible. When I started writing this blog, […]

Filed Under: Reviews and Reflection Tagged With: #BluebonnetReadingProgram, #Bookreviews, #LongBrightRiver, #ReviewsandReflection, #Titletalk

October 12, 2016

31 Days of Children’s Books, Day 12

Huddle up, girls, because we are talking sports books today! Sports stories written by none other than Mike Lupica, syndicated columnist for the New York Daily News and TV anchor for ESPN’s The Sports Reporters. I remember reading my first Mike Lupica book at home and PC stopping me to say ‘hey, that books is […]

Filed Under: Reviews and Reflection Tagged With: #31DaysofChildren'sBooks, #31DaysofWriting, #BluebonnetReadingProgram, #Bookreviews, #Hero, #MikeLupica, #Million-DollarThrow, #Retirement, #Substitutelibrarian, #Titletalk, #TwoMinuteDrill

July 6, 2016

Help YOUR Kids Beat the Summer Slide 2016: Great Books to Share

Dearest Readers, Welcome to the first post of this second year of my “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 children […]

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January 31, 2016

Title Talk: Books I’ve Been Reading Lately and a Link-Up

Huh-lo, gentle readers! Linking-up today with Alison at Puppies and Pretties for her “Reading Lately” series, January edition. I am reviewing the book(s) I’ve been reading lately. One of my goals for 2015 was to read at least one grown-up book a month. I did pretty well toward fulfilling that goal. But I also read a […]

Filed Under: Reviews and Reflection, Uncategorized Tagged With: #BluebonnetReadingProgram, #Bookreviews, #PuppiesandPretties, #ReadingLately, #Substitutelibrarian, #TexasLibraryAssociation, #The13thGift, #Titletalk, Uncategorized

October 30, 2015

TGIFTF, Thank Goodness, It’s Fairy Tale (Folktale) Friday: One Potato, Two Potato

Mirror, mirror on my wall Who’s the silliest blogger of all? Why me, of course. I am! TGIFTF, girls! Thank Goodness, It’s Fairy Tale Friday. It is actually Thursday night but guess who doesn’t have to work tomorrow? Oh, yeah, baby! Me. So this is my Friday night. And as much as I am loving […]

Filed Under: Life and Style, Reviews and Reflection, Uncategorized Tagged With: *OnePotatoTwoPotato, #AndreaU'Ren, #BluebonnetReadingProgram, #Bookreviews, #CynthiaDeFelice, #Fairytales, #Folktales, #TexasLibraryAssociation, #TGIFTF, #Titletalk, Uncategorized

June 29, 2015

Help YOUR Kids Beat the Summer Slide: Great Books to Share, Part 2

[source] Gentle readers, great parents and grandparents! So glad you are joining me for the second installment of my ‘beat the summer slide’ series. Please click here to read more about the summer slide and my first book review of the series. I have invited a number of my librarian and teacher friends to share […]

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