Books

  • My Year in Books – 2025

    I love to read, and I always have. There were definitely periods of time in my life where I didn’t get to read for fun as much as I would like, but between the amazing gift of audio and ebooks,… Continue reading

    My Year in Books – 2025
  • My Year in Books – 2024

    I love reading. In fact, I don’t think I go a single day without reading a book, and that is not counting the fact that I read from my scriptures every day.  With as busy as my life tends to… Continue reading

    My Year in Books – 2024
  • My Year in Books – 2023

    The other day I asked my students what were three words they might use to describe me, and one of them said, “Book Worm.” I love it, because it means that they know how much I LOVE to read.  This… Continue reading

    My Year in Books – 2023
  • I Love Reading – 2022

    Reading has been one of my favorite things to do for as long as I can remember. Some of my earliest childhood memories were of my mom reading Little House in the Big Woods or The Boxcar Children outlaid to… Continue reading

  • I Love Reading – 2021

    For me, reading is life.  In fact, this year I even read a really fabulous book about people like me, who LOVE to read called The Reading Life.  I know, I am hopeless, but it gives me joy and feeds… Continue reading

    I Love Reading – 2021
  • I Love Reading 2020

    My love of reading began when I was just a little girl and my mother would read me stories – picture books we would check out from the library, old copies of The Boxcar Children, Little House in the Big… Continue reading

    I Love Reading 2020
  • The End of Our Quarantine Summer

    I can’t believe the summer is coming to a close – in some ways it seemed like it lasted forever (six months or so), and in other ways it was done in a heartbeat. It means good changes, but I… Continue reading

    The End of Our Quarantine Summer
  • Books, Disappointment, and Perspective

    Almost a year ago, my siblings and I started talking about the idea of going on a trip to Italy together.  My sister, Heather, served her mission there and not only has she always wanted to go back, but she… Continue reading

    Books, Disappointment, and Perspective
  • I Love Reading – 2019

    I love reading, I love books, and escaping into a book has been one of my favorite activities since I was a little girl. This year, I had a goal of reading 150 books, and although I ended up with… Continue reading

    I Love Reading – 2019
  • I Love Reading 2018

    I love reading, and I have from my first memories of my mother reading Laura Ingalls Wilder to me as a little girl.  I have so many memories of my sister, Holly, dragging me out of my bedroom during summer… Continue reading

    I Love Reading 2018