February 27, 2026 by Maria On a busy Monday afternoon, I picked my younger two kids up from school and trekked out on a short list of errands with them in tow. They were not thrilled to say the least, however, after our first stop at the library they were pretty quiet because their nosesContinue reading “The Perseverance of Baking”
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Always Winter
February 16, 2026 By Maria It feels like the White Witch from C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia has descended upon our town. We have had a consistent layer of snow and ice everywhere for well over two weeks now. It’s still mostly beautiful with the occasional cluster of gray dirty snow. We even had someContinue reading “Always Winter”
Happy Chinese New Year!
February 14, 2026 By Maria Happy Chinese New Year! Gong hei fat choy! The Cantonese lunar new year greeting means, “May you be happy and prosperous.” Chinese Lunar New Year begins on February 17th this year. Celebrations start with the new moon. Our Lunar New Year celebrations have changed and evolved over the years, butContinue reading “Happy Chinese New Year!”
Poetic Snow and Frozen Sidewalks
February 05, 2026 By Maria I love the snow. Not the inconvenience of it, but I love how the landscape looks covered in a blanket of white. I love how everything has an overall quiet and poetic stillness. When you wake up early in the morning just after a snow fall, it is especially silent;Continue reading “Poetic Snow and Frozen Sidewalks”
Books of the Month – December 2025
Books of the Month – December 2025 Better late than never! Just in case you missed anything, I put together a list of the books I wrote about in December (There were no posts in January 2026). At the end of each month, I will write a list of all the books I wrote aboutContinue reading “Books of the Month – December 2025”
Joyful Anticipation
December 23, 2025 By Maria As Christmas gets closer there is a communal sense of waiting and preparation in the air. Of course there is pre-Christmas craziness -last minute shopping, baking, and obsessive checking of shipping status for online orders (that was me last year). Besides the pre-Christmas stress, I love the preparation and waitingContinue reading “Joyful Anticipation”
As Winter Comes
December 20, 2025 By Maria It is cold! I walked our dog one morning with my scarf up to my eyes, my hat down to my eyebrows and my head bent to the bone chilling wind. I let him lead me down the familiar streets. He’s pretty good at finding the way home and weContinue reading “As Winter Comes”
Autumnal Thoughts
December 5, 2025 By Maria Today I would like to share my thoughts from the day after Thanksgiving: Before Sunday I will need to make a journey into my attic to pull out our Advent calendar and Jesse Tree. My daughter has already reminded me, at least twice. On this Friday after Thanksgiving, we areContinue reading “Autumnal Thoughts”
Books of the Month – November 2025
December 4, 2025 Books of the Month – November 2025 Just in case you missed anything, I put together a list of the books I wrote about in November. At the end of each month, I will write a list of all the books I wrote about during that month. The post titles will linkContinue reading “Books of the Month – November 2025”
Halloween Thankfulness
November 27, 2025 By Maria Halloween is over twenty days past. In my usual style I am behind in my writing. To be fair, I have been working on this post in spurts since before Halloween, but now I am finally getting the time to sit down and finish it. I know everyone is doneContinue reading “Halloween Thankfulness”
More Bookshelves Please 