God Shed His Grace On Thee. . .
I have been brushing up “America the Beautiful” on the piano lately, and of course it has been on my mind today. Not on my mind enough to convince me to practice piano today , but I’ve still thought...
View ArticleBook Review ~ The Witch of Blackbird Pond
I’m sorry I wasn’t able to get this put up yesterday. I’m blaming the holiday (but just between you and me, it had much more to do with me just not wanting to write *sheepish grin*). Our library put...
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Hey, readers! We’re going to forego the book review this time, because I’m a bit busy today and I have something else to post about: I have different pages now, top right! From now on, I’m going to...
View ArticleUndomiel
In case you hadn’t yet noticed, I love this necklace! Thank you, Spencer, it’s awesome. And yes, it still is, even when I do cartwheels and it hits me in the forehead. I can’t believe how well this...
View ArticleBook Review: The Bronze Bow
Um, yeah. Hi. No, I didn’t fall off the face of the earth, or go to the ER, or forget to tell you I was going on vacation. We’ve just been busy, and I’m just lazy–that’s all. I decided skipping the...
View ArticleBook Review ~ To Kill A Mockingbird
Sorry the review is rather late. I mostly just want to get a review out a week, and Tuesdays a good day most of the time. We gave our copy of this book back to the library after I read it, so I’ve...
View ArticleThe Describe Tag
So. . . as you can see, the book reviews are only sort-of happening. I apologize. I am planning on doing more reading soon though, so that should help. In the mean time, I’m going to do a tag...
View ArticleIs it August already??
After a summer containing many e-mails and Skype calls. . . . . . one amazing big sister got back from Europe last Saturday. And turned twenty the next day! Happy birthday, Becca! I love you!!
View Article(Very Late) Book Review ~ Jimmie Moore of Bucktown
We just got back from a wonderful trip to Colorful Colorado, and while we were there we received this great news. I am so excited!! Life has been a bit crazy (and I have been rather uninspired), but...
View ArticleThe Text Tag
Good afternoon, readers! How are we? I was tagged I’m-so-not-telling-how-long-ago, by my sweet friend Savannah. It looks like a lot of fun, thank you, Savannah. And sorry it took so long! ~Thank the...
View ArticleCreating
My Mom just e-mailed me a link to this awesome post, and I wanted to share it. Every writer. artist, and actor needs to read this. “God didn’t make a strictly utilitarian world. He decorated it with...
View ArticleiHeart Writing Tag
Micaiah tagged me for the iHeart Writing Tag a while ago, and I’m finally getting around to doing it. I’m so sorry it took me this long, Micaiah. Also, the blog you linked to that had the rules in it...
View ArticleSeptember
“But his uneasiness wore off, and in the fine weather he forgot his troubles for a while. The Shire had seldom seen so fair a summer, or so rich an autumn: the trees were laden with apples, honey was...
View ArticleArchery
I wrote a paper on archery last school year, and I was going to post it on here, and somehow it never happened all summer. So. . . here we are now. My apologies to everyone who has been waiting to...
View ArticleStories
Stories are among the first kinds of continuous discourse we learn. From the time we are children, we all tell stories to achieve a multitude of ends–to amuse, to warn, to excite, to inform, to...
View ArticleHiding
A friend of mine has a private blog, and I have enjoyed reading it for several years. She just got a public one recently, and I’m so excited to be able to link to her now! She recently posted a...
View ArticleHobbit Day
Of course I’ve been thinking of Middle Earth today! I’m sure some of you have too. I’ve heard so many people say that they wished they could visit Tolkien’s beautiful world, and I must say that I...
View ArticleThe Kingdom of Light
“For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding. And we...
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