Romance novels aren't usually my favorite kind of book, It’s not that I hate romance. It’s that, ironically, romance novels often don't...

A Mind-Opening Journey Into Parenting! Book Review "The Whole-Brain Child" by Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson "The Whole-Brain...

This is one of the most interesting books I have ever read. It’s also one of the most interesting ways I have heard about a book. In...

The Beyonders series, by Brandon Mull

The school at which I teach is doing a staged production of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory this year and, as I’m involved, I’ve...

by I grew up in a small town in northeastern Utah. It was pretty idyllic. I see now that it was the last window of a certain way of life...

By Corliss Jacobs I have often heard it said that the right books have a way of finding their way to the right person. This is the case...

The new year has begun! The new year has begun! I have made the 2023 heading in my reading notebook. I have carefully numbered the first...

“Good Afternoon,” moms! I hope you all had a very Merry Christmas. I just saw the movie musical retelling of Charles Dicken’s A...

Well written, compelling, enjoyable female characters? In THIS day and age? How scandalous! As a young woman who also happens to be an...

“I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.” – C.S. Lewis I have been reading “The Collapse of Parenting: How...

My friend Kim recommended this book for a book club read, and I was intrigued by the title. Set in Nigeria, the words on the pages of...

By Corliss Jacobs The older I’ve gotten, the more I realize how incredible laughter is. When we are little children, it comes so easily...

By Corliss Jacobs Growing up in the digital age, I was always surrounded by filtered lives and photoshopped achievements that made me...

by Stephanie Wheeler I find myself in a bind this month. I am in a reading slump. It happens. Not often, but I hate it when it does. In...

Ghosts, goblins and monsters can be scary for sure, but sometimes the scariest thing we face are the crazy ladies lurking just beneath...

“All that I am or ever hope to be I owe to my angel mother.” -Abraham Lincoln “Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of...

By Stephanie Wheeler I am a lover of books. I have been an avid reader all my life. I read across all genres. I go in and out of book...

It takes a village to raise a child, but it takes a mother to raise a village.