After months of deliberation, I have decided to take a “summer vacation” from school for the upcoming term. I have been constantly enrolled in school and consistently engaged in coursework for the past 22 months (minus two week breaks between terms) and am taking the next eight-week term off for what will be nearly a three-month [...]

I think all of the Kim Vogel Sawyer’s books I have read thus far occupy a pretty narrow time frame around the late mid-to-late 19th century. I find it really interesting and brave that she journeyed not only into the 20th century but all the way to World War II for Sweet Sanctuary. The setting and [...]

Stealing the Preacher by Karen Witemeyer started a bit slow while the initial plot warmed up and the pieces fell into place for the rest of the book to develop. It isn’t until what felt like at least 1/4 to 1/3 of the book was read that a decided antagonist emerged to add some sort [...]

They say that there is one person who looks like you somewhere in the world, but I have yet to encounter my doppelganger. I somewhat resemble many of my family members – my brothers, my mother, etc….but that is nothing unique and we aren’t uncanny enough to be thought of us as fraternal twins, so [...]

Overt simplicity tinges every outward glance. Enraptured, neatly emulsified. Suspended in silence,   I meditate. Ponder everything. Realize fate excitedly created this attraction.   The yesterday pain eases. I vanquish.   About: I wrote this poem about my husband. With him my OI doesn’t matter; with him, it does matter. Pain and the idea of [...]

No. Seriously, just no. I really have a pet peeve about interpretative spelling, particularly when it comes to using the letter ‘K’ in place of a letter ‘C.’ I think part of this is because I don’t like the letter ‘K’ all that much and partly because I usually see this done for the words [...]

Even though I was only eight years old when I was diagnosed with Osteogenesis Imperfecta, I had been around the broken bone block several times and through a hard situation with my family that started because my bones broke without a sufficient explanation for hospital workers. We all emerged out of the other side of [...]

On my journey toward completely healthy living, I have found the need for a calorie counter that didn’t require the effort of logging calorie and nutrition facts in an actual book and then adding my convoluted lines of numbers. The My Fitness Pal app for the iPod and iPhone (and possibly the iPad) is very handy in [...]

I write a lot of book reviews. Some of the books I buy. Many of them I receive gratis in exchange for a review that is supposed to be honest. Honest is not relative in my book, but it is for authors, friends, fans, and publicists whether you are reviewing something you shelled out hard-earned [...]

Labels. We love them. Good labels. Bad labels. Imported labels. Getting dumped by your record label. One label I have been stuck with a good bit is that of “introvert” or the simple person’s variation of that – “shy.” I may be an introvert. I do love to read and enjoy other quiet activities too. [...]