Wife, mom, writer, Christ-follower, reader, knitter, baker… writing about life in general and everything that goes along with it.
From the category archives:
I have to admit, I didn’t do a whole lot of reading in the Children’s Classics Mystery Challenge during the past month. But I did take some time to re-visit one of my dear childhood friends: Nancy Drew.
I headed to the basement, to the row of yellow-spined Nancy Drew mysteries collected during my childhood, and [...]
{ 13 comments }
Last month, I mentioned that I was participating in the Children’s Classics Mystery Challenge, hosted by 5 Minutes For Books — spending some time between January and June of this year reading classic mystery books for kids.
During the past month, I focused on some Encyclopedia Brown books. I didn’t have a particular plan of attack; I just [...]
{ 11 comments }
Another Monday, another chance to play along with Melissa’s The Week In Words carnival. To participate, just share quotes from anything you read this past week. Visit Breath of Life to check out other participants or to submit your own link.
This week, I started to read Thin Places, the spiritual memoir of an author I [...]
{ 13 comments }
Melissa from Breath of Life is starting a new carnival today: The Week in Words. The idea is simple. Participants post quotes from whatever reading they did that week — any quotes that stood out to them, touched them, made them laugh, whatever. And the source can be any kind of reading — blogs, magazines, books. As long as [...]
{ 12 comments }
I have to say, it was a good fall for reading. I had been in a reading slump for pretty much the entire summer, so this challenge was exactly what I needed to jump-start my reading and get me back into a good reading routine.
My goals for Fall Into Reading 2009 were fairly modest. I [...]
{ 18 comments }
It’s the third Tuesday of the month, which means 5 Minutes for Books is hosting their monthly Kids’ Picks carnival.
This month, I thought I’d share about a series of Bible study books that work well for tweens.
Over the summer, one thing C. (11) and I wanted to do was to find a Bible study for [...]
{ 10 comments }
I don’t see how April can possibly be over, but my calendar tells me it’s May 1st. Therefore, the April 2009 edition of Jennifer’s Read Together challenge has come to an end. Here’s how things went in the Callapidder household:
The goals I listed in my original post were as follows:
1) Read an average of 10 [...]
{ 2 comments }
“We shape our tools and afterward our tools shape us.”
- Marshall McLuhan
This week, I’m participating in a blog tour of a new book called Flickering Pixels: How Technology Shapes Your Faith. To be honest, when I finished the book, my mind was swimming a little. The author, Shane Hipps, touches on many ways our lives [...]
{ 6 comments }
My good friend Jennifer is hosting a great reading challenge called Read Together. You can get more details at her site, and I encourage you to check it out and jump in on the fun. The challenge starts today and runs through the month of April.
The premise is simple: Set some concrete goals involving reading [...]
{ 12 comments }
I’m not sure why I do this to myself. I guess it’s because I like to see my children’s faces light up with excitement. I love to encourage their love of books and reading. And sometimes, I just want to get through a trip to Target with minimal distraction.
What is it I do? I buy [...]
{ 13 comments }
