Books

Welcome to my first post as part of Melissa Ford’s new Gonna Read it Anyway Book Club, a.k.a. the GRAB(ook) Club! One of the things I love about Mel’s latest brain-child is the relatively simple format. Though I really enjoyed my past experiences participating in online book clubs and book tours, they can be very time-consuming. With […]

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Greetings and welcome to this stop on the The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption Book Tour! This is my fifth time participating in a book tour. My previous experiences were with Eat, Pray, Love, Life from Scratch, A Gift of Time and The Sound of Hope. For those of you not familiar with book tours, they are essentially online book clubs. […]

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Last night I attend a presentation by Dr. Tina Payne Bryson, author of The Whole-Brian Child, at St. Xavier University in our Chicago neighborhood, on the southwest side of the city. Dr. Bryson was brought here thanks to a number of local organizations, including my daughter’s preschool, but in large part due to the effort […]

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Greetings and welcome to this stop on the The Sound of Hope Book Tour! This is my fourth time participating in a book tour. My previous experiences were with Eat, Pray, Love, Life from Scratch and A Gift of Time. For those of you not familiar with book tours, they are essentially online book clubs. On a given date the […]

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It’s Thursday, which means my latest post is up over at The Today Voice.  It’s been five weeks since I last shared links to my posts as “Thursday’s Voice.” I appreciate your support and feedback about my posts and am especially grateful to those who have taken time to comment on my posts over there and share […]

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It’s been awhile since I have shared links here to my writing for Exhale Literary Magazine. My latest piece, a movie review, was published there today and last August I also wrote and shared another movie review there. These were my first two experiences writing movie reviews and I really enjoyed the challenge and the process. […]

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