Sure, Amazon and Target drive-up are easy peasy. And it allows me to hide my day 3 nasty hair from the public. But I like to shop local to make sure the local shops remain in our community. I selected a handful of items from local stores (where I live and where my two sisters …
If you read my last post about Satchel Paige and then today’s post, one might suggest I’m a sports nut. I am not. At. All. But shoot, a sports rom com just GETS me. You Had Me at Hockey by Kelly Jamieson is the author’s second book in the Bears Hockey series and it is …
Wes Tooke’s King of the Mound, My Summer with Satchel Paige is likely a story you haven’t stumbled upon. But I urge you to take a look. Request this goodness from the library or ‘add to cart’ on Amazon or something. Because this is the kind of middle grade fiction that will educate you, break …
Yesterday marked an important day in our history. On November 14, 1960, a sweet little girl in Louisiana became the first African American student to enter (and enroll and learn and endure) the all-white William Frantz Elementary School during the New Orleans school segregation crisis. I saw that Ruby’s new book was going to be …
Chicago hit a cold spell in October and I snuck in a nap after the kiddos’ football and soccer scrimmages. My mind went to hibernation. My fingers dialed up a LOT of library loan requests. Every night I read a few books to Motor in bed before he falls asleep and we had a big …
