Welcome to It’s Just Life- Finding the Extraordinary in the Ordinary where plays on words are the norm and where authors are held in highest esteem. Today I am thrilled to share one of my North Iowa Blogger friends, Jennifer K. Schmitt. Jen has recently Continue reading →
About a million years ago (well maybe only 24) I was a young mom who loved her time with her boys. Now I am an “old” mom who still loves time with her boys and their “girls”. I found this newspaper clipping a few weeks Continue reading →
Battery Park Book Exchange and Champagne Bar located in the Grove Arcade in Asheville, North Carolina is as close to a perfect marriage as you can get. Books and champagne just naturally go together and when Chris and I walked into the Book Exchange and Continue reading →
International Book Giving Day is coming on February 14th, 2019 and I would love to have my readers be able to participate in it. It is a great way to share the love of reading with children all over the world. This year the artist Continue reading →
It’s obvious that I surround myself with books. It’s a good thing. It really is. When I find books that I love, that resonate with me I like to share. So today a quick post about 4 books that I have read recently or am Continue reading →
I love everything about Little Free Libraries and when Pat Bennett, another Brevardian, contacted me about how to go about putting up one of her own I was overjoyed. She had found my contact info on the Little Free Library map and had a few Continue reading →
My favorite author, Sean Dietrich, has to be one of the most generous and compassionate folks on this planet. I have raved about him before on the blog and shared my admiration for him, his writing, his podcasts, his blog, his kindness, the list goes Continue reading →
I have been on a reading binge this year and it has been wonderful. Simply wonderful. Yes, I have let other things go by the wayside at times so I could read but I don’t regret it. Not a bit. I keep track of my Continue reading →
This is what drew me in. I spied a Little Free Library while we were walking to our car in Beaufort, South Carolina and immediately stopped. Poor Chris is getting pretty used to my swivel head when it comes to spying Little Free Libraries. But Continue reading →
Bedside Reading® is an amazing program that I have recently become acquainted with through fellow blogger Lois Alter Mark. Lois blogs at Midlife at the Oasis–brilliant blog name in my humble opinion. Lois has partnered with them and is hosting monthly giveaways on her blog Continue reading →
