Tag: Family
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day
May the road rise to meet you. May the wind be always at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face; The rains fall soft upon your fields, And until we meet again, May God hold you in the palm of His hand. This is a very old and the most traditional of…
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The Language of Flowers
Vanessa Diffenbaugh, 2012, literary fiction, 334 pages Victoria Jones spent an isolated childhood in the foster care system. During an interval of relative calm, she learned the meanings of flowers used during Victorian times to convey romantic expression. She finds them more useful in communicating her fears and mistrust of others. Now she is eighteen,…
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Clutter and a Bedroom Switch
I just finished with a major house reorder. We moved into the girls room. They moved into the office and the office moved to what had been our bedroom. Why would a person do that? The first and foremost reason is because the thermostat is at the wrong place in our house. Seriously, that is…
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Coming Clean
Kimberly Rae Miller, 2013 Biography If you could see Ms Miller now in her beautifully tidy apartment with its sparkling countertops and clean floors, you would never guess that she grew up in a junk filled home. She new, growing up, that things were different in her home. She was embarrassed, always meeting friends at…
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Educated and Educating {Books by Daughter and Mother}
Educated: Tara Westover, 2018 (the daughter) Educating: LaRee Westover, 2020 (the mom) Autobiography One family. Two very different viewpoints. Educated Educated is a book about Tara’s troubled childhood on into how she deals with things as an adult. She describes her life near Clifton, Idaho as traumatic and unsettling. Her father distrusted the government and…
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Libraries I Have Loved
Libraries have played a huge role in my reading life. I grew up going to our local library and as I left home, I found the local library where I was living at the time. All of these hold a special place in my heart! DeSmet, SD The Hazel L Meyer Memorial Library is the…
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Welcome to So She Reads
Reading has always been a part of our lives. We remember the many evenings back at Redstone Valley Farm with mom reading to us. In my mind, we were usually sitting on the floor, leaning on the couch. I have absolutely NO IDEA why we sat on the floor and not in the soft comfort…
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The Life Giving Table
Sally Clarkson, 2017, 272 pages How important is it to gather around the table with your family? Sally Clarkson, the author of The Lifegiving Table, sees a table set with food as a place to nurture faith and connection along with satisfying physical hunger. In this book she explains why your table is your mission, along…
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Comfort and Joy
Kristin Hannah, 2005 Joy Candellaro has always loved Christmas. Until this one. She is recently divorced and her sister, with whom she was always close, has further broken her heart. Without these two relationships, life seems to have no point. Impulsively, Joy buys a ticket and boards a plane bound for the Northwest. Things do…
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