Summertime…and the reading is easy!

Ah, summertime. When sunscreen-slathered children run about in packs, drifting between sprints through the backyard sprinkler, bike rides, and mom’s-not-looking popsicle raids. Maybe it was residual effects of all of those old timey lemonade commercials, but summer makes me a bit nostalgic for those long-lost afternoons full of possibility. Kids who are fortunate to have […]

Book Review: Gem By Hollie Hobbie

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. ~Stendhal As a kid, I was the happy recipient of a bedroom decorated in all things Holly Hobbie. I had the pink and green curtains, the rug and bedding, and I even had one of those rag dolls with the movable […]