Comments for a Cause Archives

December 1, 2023

Comments for a Cause – Sharing is Caring

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December 1st and I am getting in the holiday mood, what about you? This weekend marks the kick off in our little mountain community of all things holiday and I am very excited. This year we will not be traveling for the holidays – the Continue reading →

November 1, 2023

Comments for a Cause – Providing Support

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Hello November! Glad to see you! November brings all kinds of great adventures but before all of the November fun begins it is time to talk Comments for a Cause. This past month we highlighted Black Mountain Home for Children, Youth and Families. From foster Continue reading →

October 2, 2023

Comments for A Cause – Moving Mountains

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I’ve been trying to play around with some stuff on my blog this week to update the way that folks comment and hopefully I haven’t messed everything up totally. It always takes me some time to navigate the ins and outs of making changes and Continue reading →

September 6, 2023

Comments for a Cause(s) a Splash

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I’m back! After a fabulous 11 days of family, fun, and all things Maine I am back home and happily settling in for a few days of laundry and loving on lonely kitty cats. I will regale you with stories of our adventures later but Continue reading →

August 1, 2023

Comments for a Cause – More Than Words

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Happy August 2023! Whoopie! That deserves all of the exclamation marks I can find because look at us –here we are in August already. Hopefully all of my great readers are having a fabulous summer and enjoying some time outside. We have been getting a Continue reading →

July 3, 2023

Comments for a Cause – For the Lives of Millions

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Happy July to each one of my readers. It has been warm and a little stormy here in North Carolina but it means that I don’t have to water my plants nearly as much so that makes me happy. As I always do around the Continue reading →

June 1, 2023

Comments for a Cause – Finding Balance

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June 1, 2023. Here we go again. The months are flying by and soon the year will be half over. This is a busy month with the annual AAUW Used Book Sale among other things but I definitely wanted to start it out right with Continue reading →

May 1, 2023

Comments for a Cause Keeps on Booking

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May! May! May! It’s here. I love May. It signals flowers and plants and freshness to me and of course here on It’s Just Life the first of the month means it is time for Comments for a Cause. This past month we shared a Continue reading →

April 3, 2023

Comments for a Cause – Reaching Out through El Centro

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Life is good and life is busy and today we mark another chapter in the Comments for a Cause book as we celebrate the beginning of yet another month. Our cause this past month was one that I am involved with because of my membership Continue reading →

March 1, 2023

Comments for a Cause – It’s All About Women

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Hey February! Where did you go? Now I realize that February is a short month but seriously. It’s March. Say that with me — it’s March. Wow. I am kind of in disbelief that it is already the third month of the year of this Continue reading →

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The Art of Social Media: Power Tips for Power Users

by Guy Kawasaki

As always Guy Kawasaki has a great book with great information about all things social media. I highlighted tons of places in this book and it is definitely one that I will come back to time and time again to help me in all of the socia...

Old Girls in Low Cotton

by Helen Childress

This short book was one that looked like it would be a fun read. I honestly did not enjoy it all that much---it was a lot of characters bickering and while some of the writing was witty and funny it was not that kind of book that made m...

The Good Girl

by Mary Kubica

I loved this book! It had my interest from the very first page and was my "airplane" book on a recent trip. Author Mary Kubica created believable and interesting characters that the reader learned to identify with and care about. Mi...

All the Light We Cannot See

by Anthony Doerr

This is quite a book! I had it recommended to me by several people and while I thought it might be a little dark and depressing it made me have a better understanding of what life in this time period was like. The strength of the huma...

An Abundance of Katherines

by John Green

Another great book by John Green. I have become a huge fan of John Green since my reading of A Fault in our Stars and this book was another that did not disappoint me at all. It was a story of a child prodigy, a lot of anagrams, and a b...