Gretchen Louise 7 Minute Read One of these years, I am going to try wrapping up a few books to open and read each day of Advent. This year, I felt like I was planning ahead by getting out of the box of Christmas books before Thanksgiving was past. Sometime, I’ll make a careful, chronological list of the books I want to read…
Chantel 3 Minute Read When it comes to stories, I like to start at the very beginning. I like to know how things began, so that when I get to the end I can look back and relive the entire journey. And I can’t think of a more beautiful story to get to read from beginning to end than…
Chantel 4 Minute Read Between Google and Pinterest, it’s easy as pie (though pie isn’t that easy!) to find every variation of any recipe. Copy cat recipes, gluten free, or vegan versions. The ideas are literally “googolplex” in number. But there’s nothing like the inspiration to be found in taking a stack of cookbooks off the shelf and browsing…
Caroline Rose Sanders 7 Minute Read Several years ago, someone in my family brought a CD home to Eyrie Park and played it on our twenty-five year old stereo system in the living room. During the subsequent Christmas months, we played “Behold the Lamb of God” once or more a day. We were officially mesmerized with the music of Andrew Peterson. Shortly after that, my…
Guest Author 5 Minute Read by Denise J. Hughes My grandma’s TV sat on the floor, with me right in front of it. As a kid, I flipped channels for hours. And every so often, an old movie channel would show a stiff-legged monster with outstretched arms, staggering toward a screaming woman. Flip. Not interested. For whatever reason, the story…
Elisabeth Adams 3 Minute Read Yesterday, I sat in a dentist’s waiting room, while the clock ticked two hours past my appointment time. It was packed: at least a dozen people sat waiting, watching TV with Hebrew subtitles, while the dentist punctuated the subdued murmur with repeated cries for his very busy secretary, and I tried not to watch the…
Gretchen Louise 7 Minute Read When my friend Sarah Mackenzie over at the Read-Aloud Revival said that The Green Ember by S.D. Smith was the one book you must read this year, I knew it better go on our wishlist. And then it came out on audiobook, read by Joel Clarkson (and oh how we love audiobooks!). My children were hooked after the one-hour audio…
Jessica Telian 2 Minute Read When the hills and lower mountains grew mossy-coloured in late spring, I reveled in it. And to celebrate, I usually read some Gene Stratton Porter. Her descriptions of the verdant swamps and woods of the Midwest always added to the general fresh and green feeling of those few months of spring.
Chantel 4 Minute Read If you have ever tried to convince someone who doesn’t read of all the reasons why they should, this post is for you. Okay, for them and you. But if you love books and haven’t thought about all the pros of being a bookworm, you will definitely want to keep reading. Some of these reasons for why…
Caroline Rose Sanders 4 Minute Read “..if a book is well written, I always find it too short.” -Jane Austen Jane Austen’s life was far from blissful, but she is one of the few classic authoresses to gain recognition for her writing during her lifetime, and her fame has only escalated since. In the 2007 biographical film, Becoming Jane, during the end scene Anne Hathaway…
Mandy J. Hoffman 5 Minute Read All of us are aware of the dangers of an unbalanced diet. Too many cookies and ice cream and our jeans get too snug. Too many carrots and we might look a little orange around the edges. Not that I know about the “orange around the edges” personally, but I did see a lady whose…
Guest Author 6 Minute Read by Mystie Winckler Have you ever taken one of those online quizzes that will supposedly prove how educated or well-read you are based on how many books on their list you’ve read? Often we want to be able to check off those classic titles simply to be able to say we read them, to have…
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