My Own Thoughts

Yucky book: The theme is someone is “forced” to do something that eventually makes her very happy, but she doesn't want to be doing it at the time. It upset me so much that, even though I knew the ending was happy, I had to quit reading about chapter three and skip to the last [...]

I read a book that upset me. Instead of feeling bad, I started thinking of words that made me happy. sand castles jumping jacks leap frog duck, duck, goose laughter falling stars hot pink royal purple

I am in my third week of my fourth (or is it fifth?) Body for Life twelve week challenge. I didn't actually take the challenge, as in send in my pictures, etc. I tried something else between my last BFL and this one. It helped in a lot of ways–gaining muscle and learning more about [...]

About homeschooling? Well, I did it when the boys were little, preschool ages. We would have Bible lessons and number lessons. I even did my eldest's kindergarten. But then he didn't want to learn to read. He told me he didn't need to. We'd gone through the whole 100 lessons for teaching your child to [...]

I finished my driving course. In a horrible mood. I can only take one chapter at a time without getting frazzled, but hubby insisted I needed to finish tonight. Then the course wouldn't let me advance out of chapter ten. I took the final twice, getting all the answers correct each time, before I could [...]

It is amazing to read about the lives of regular people who make their living writing. I am on a writing group and I have 72,000 words fo a novel done, but it seems a far away dream to be finished. Thisarticle is by one of those real writersabout pulling a practical joke on his [...]