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You Are Weird, but That’s Why We Love You.
I would like to personally thank Felicia Day for her memoir, You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost). I know her from her internet show, The Guild, but my mom, and most everyone else, know her as Charlie from Supernatural. I’ve always loved her because she outwardly owns how I feel on the inside – Read more
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At the Beach with the Written World
Dear Beach, Unfortunately, we need to temporarily break up. Fall is here, and our summer of slacktitude, although brief, will forever be on my mind when the leaves drown my grass, and I get diabetes from drinking too many Pumpking Spiced Lattes. My last visit to you will be remembered fondly, even though there were Read more
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Bad Navy Guys and Awesomely Feral Navy Kids
Over a month ago, the kids and I went to this amazing summer fest that they have on the subbase. They had paintball- which got super heated because you had grown men serving in the military either pairing up with or going against children. My son was accepted into this super alpha group of guys, Read more
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When Failure Is Really A Wake-Up Call
A few weeks ago, before the Summer of Slacktitude ended and I was insanely blinded by medical goo in my eyes, I had felt empowered enough to send out a few query letters to agents. I had this grand idea of sending a few out each week so that I wouldn’t feel overwhelmed with absolute Read more
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Closet Readers
When I was around my daughter’s age, my parents separated, and we moved into a tiny apartment that was cozy enough for my ,mom and me. When I wanted to escape from the world, I would hide in the only closet. It had just enough space for myself, a blanket, a flashlight and a handful Read more
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Summer Reading Goals
Today is the very first day of summer! It would be something to celebrate, if we weren’t still a family of school goers for ANOTHER WEEK. Snow days seemed worth it at the time….. Since a week can feel like forever, we started to make our summer reading goals. We searched the Scriptorium’s shelves for Read more
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Middle Grade Fiction: LGBTQ+ Community
In honor of Pride month, Scholastic listed a series of books that promote the LGBTQ+ community within middle grade fiction. It is important that members of these communities are valued and represented within our literature, especially Middle Grade Fiction where adolescents are at the cusp of displaying and understanding their identities. In Children Read more
