General events not linked to a day Canned Food Month National Chocolate Lovers Month National Cherry Month National Grapefruit Month National Snack Food Month National Potato Lovers Month Return Shopping Carts to the Supermarket Month National Hot Breakfast Month 1st week of Feb- African Heritage & Health Week 3rd Weekend of February: National Margarita Weekend “Superbowl Sunday” : National Pork…
Book I Read: Confessions of a Prodigal Daughter by Sarahbeth Caplin
Description on Amazon In a bittersweet twist of fate, I started out “too Jewish” for my Catholic friends in elementary school, but not Jewish enough for the kids I met at summer camp, with their youth group logos and wristbands. In Israel, I didn’t feel I had the right to call myself Jewish at all. Now I was too Christian…
Book I Read: Philosopher’s Crystal by Marcin Dolecki
Description on Amazon Twenty-year-old Philip lives alone in an authoritarian country, his parents arrested after the imperial police find a secret notebook in their apartment. Then one evening Philip meets an uncommon girl, her name Julia, possibly on the run from the police, or sent to him as a secret agent by the state. Despite his concerns, he offers to…
Book I Read: And Then I am Gone: A Walk through Thoreau by Mathias B Freese
Description on Amazon And Then I Am Gone: A Walk with Thoreau tells the story of a New York City man who becomes an Alabama man. Despite his radical migration to simpler living and a late-life marriage to a saint of sorts, his persistent pet anxieties and unanswerable questions follow him. Mathias Freese wants his retreat from the societal “it” to…
Something I found in my diary of way back in 2013: another more chatty review of Philosopher’s Stone by JK Rowling
30/12/2013 I have avoided reading the Harry Potter books by JK Rowling. All for religious reasons! Imagine. But I figured the other day, reading about witches and wizards is not going to add or take anything away from my salvation. There is not some magical power being exerted by the book that will enchant me. Everything in life depends on…
Book I Read: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by JK Rowling
Description on Amazon “Turning the envelope over, his hand trembling, Harry saw a purple wax seal bearing a coat of arms; a lion, an eagle, a badger and a snake surrounding a large letter ‘H’.” Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Addressed in green ink…
This month in History: January
General events not linked to a date National Hot Tea Month National Oatmeal Month National Slow Cooking Month National Soup Month National Baking Month National Fat-Free Living Month 1 January National Bloody Mary Day National Black Eyed Pea Day 1735 Paul Revere’s Birthday (1735 – 1818) 1752 Betsy Ross’s Birthday (1752 – 1836) 1892 Ellis Island Begins As Immigration gateway…
This month in History: December
National Egg Nog Month National Fruit Cake Month 1 December World Aids Day the official website Rosa Parks Day (1955 Rosa Parks sets off a bus boycott in Montgomery, Georgia) Rosa Parks on Garden of Praise Rosa Parks – Legacy on Biography National Fried Pie Day 1934 Josef Stalin begins a purge of enemies in the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin…
Book I Read: Pagoo by Holling Clancy Holling
Description by Rufolf Steiner College Bookstore A detailed study of tide pool life is presented in text and pictures through the story of Pagoo, a hermit crab. A perfect story for fourth grade “Human and Animal” classes, or nature studies.The story begins…Little Pagurus- “Pagoo” for short- floated at the surface of the sea. Pagurus (Pa-gu-rus) would grow into a two-fisted…
Book I Read: Christmas Makeover by Cami Checketts
Description on Amazon Chelsea Jamison has been infatuated with Drew Stirling longer than she’s loved playing basketball, high-top sneakers, and the Knicks. Unfortunately, all Drew sees is the kid who kicked his trash in the high school free throw contest and not the girl whose heart breaks into a fast dribble when he’s near. Drew makes an unexpected visit home…