Month: November 2020
Small Business Saturday at Second Time Around Homestead
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Book Review of Kings Warrior
The plotline is steady and the dialog and actions believable. There is a lot of foreshadowing, but this helps us to adjust to and believe in the fantasy. There is no unnecessary or stilted dialog, instead it helps us to really understand the characters.
Book Review of The Shadow Curse
I stayed up far too late to finish reading this book because I just had to know what was going to happen next. As a good reader, I had some theories, but the author nicely throws some twists in with the expected. I cannot wait to read the sequel!
6 Of My Favorite To Be Read Challenges for 2021
Sometimes my reading falls in a funk and I go searching for a way to liven it up. Don’t get … More
Money tight for the Holidays? 5 easy ways to save money!
So many people would like extra money and think about working part time jobs for extra cash. But what if … More
What the 2020-21 School Year Really Looks Like (from the eyes of an educator)
Visitors are no longer allowed in schools. Staff and students enter the building by the door closest to their classroom to avoid being in the hallways or “public” spaces any more than necessary. (Before they even arrive, the school buses have assigned seats by families, spaced out as far as possible, or they are dropped off at school in personal vehicles. We’re too rural for most of our families to walk.) When you walk into the school building (through the door closest to where you are going), you must sign in and take your temperature & attest that you have no Covid symptoms.
Pssst, It’s a Secret
Psst, it’s a birthday secret!
Let’s go for a bit of a run…
A few years ago a friend of mine asked me to run a half marathon (13.1 miles) with him. He … More