Hey friends! I hope your new year is off to a fabulous start. We had the best Christmas season, surrounded by lots of love with both sides of our family. We traveled a lot in December, so in January we’ve been staying home and keeping a low profile. For me…
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I set a 2018 goal to read at least 2 books per month from the library to: encourage me to read more, and borrow instead of buy, decreasing what I spend on books. I’ve read 16 books this year so far — 11 from the library, 4 purchased, 1 borrowed…
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I really enjoy books that offer concrete, practical steps you can take to strengthen your faith. One such book I had the pleasure to read recently is Rediscover Catholicism by Matthew Kelly. Kelly urges readers to do one thing at the beginning of Mass each week. Pray, and ask the…
1 CommentReading is one of my favorite hobbies. It doesn’t take much for me to be sucked into another world and completely absorbed with a character’s life. This past weekend, I read two books in a series my sister and her boyfriend gave me for my birthday. After completing the last…
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There has been a dramatic increase in occult activity and symbolism in main stream media in the last few weeks. From witch and demon costumes to bloody skull candles, you can find a bit of Halloween almost anywhere you go. I think we can all agree this increase is expected behavior for the weeks before October 31st. What struck me as odd this year is the extreme focus on vampires.
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I started reading Dan Kennedy’s No B.S. Marketing to the Affluent yesterday on my lunch. I’ve only made it 40 pages in, but I’m rather uneasy about his approach so far. It strikes me as slimy and the language he uses to describe his findings reads like an excerpt from a “Get Rich Quick!” seminar.
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I’m reading a book right now called The Choice: America at the Crossroads of Ruin and Revival. It cites the self-centered attitudes/morals/behaviors of the Baby Boomers as the cause of many of America’s problems. Rather than simply pointing out the issues the plague America today, the author Sammy Tippet digs…
2 CommentsIn elementary school, we can’t wait to be in junior high. In junior high, we can’t wait to be in high school. In high school, we can’t wait to be in college. In college, we can’t wait to graduate so we can enter the work force and get on with our lives – some of us anyway. 😉
The waiting process seems to be endless.
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