Category: Books
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My Gardening Journal
I received a copy of My Gardening Journal to review; all opinions expressed are mine. I enjoy gardening, so I was looking forward to reviewing this gardening journal from Fox Chapel Publishing (softcover). Right now, I’m doing more container gardening since I don’t have a yard, but My Gardening Journal works for whatever type of…
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Debt-Free Living
Debt-free living ties in with my goal for a simplified, less-cluttered, more stress-free life. Did you realize that being in debt and having lots of bills is a big cause of stress? I want to be wiser about spending and saving, so I’m taking Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University class, which teaches you how to…
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Giving it Forward
Hello and hope you are having a nice Sunday! Today I wanted to share some excerpts from a book I read a few months ago—Be the Gift by Ann Voskamp. This is a shorter version of her book The Broken Way, which I’ve also read.
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Beautiful Truths
I’m sharing some hand lettering you’ll find in the new She Reads Truth Bible. It’s beautifully designed, with special hand lettered key verses from each of the 66 books of the Bible.
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Holding Tight to the Permanent One
“How quickly things change. Life is a given until it isn’t,” writes Amanda as she shares about her father’s battle with cancer. “For a long time, nothing was certain except that life was uncertain,” Raechel adds, as she describes the brokenness in her childhood home. Two women, two stories–different, yet not so different from yours or mine.…
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Finding Strength in Beauty
“In some way I feel you here with me as I write, and I hope you feel that I’m there with you as you read, just your friend, across the table at a coffee shop, swapping stories and sharing hope,” Annie F. Downs writes at the beginning of her new book, Looking for Lovely. And as I…
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Surrender
I marked a page in a book I had read several years ago and came across it the other day. A Prayer That Moves Heaven offers comfort and hope for those going through difficult times, and we all have gone through or are going through difficult, challenging times, right? As I reread the page I had marked, I…
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Unbroken
I just finished reading Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand. A friend had given me the book a few years ago, and I had it in my stack of books to read. I never have as much time to read as I’d like, so the book sat in my stack for awhile. When I heard the story…
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