book review: The Tutor’s Daughter

Book Description: Emma Smallwood, determined to help her widowed father regain his spirits when his academy fails, agrees to travel with him to the distant Cornwall coast, to the cliff-top manor of a baronet and his four sons. But after they arrive and begin teaching...

thankful thursday: week seven

  What a wild week. Blame Valentines Day for the Thankful Thursday post being on Friday. I hope you’re not too OCD to bear with me. Did Valentines Day brighten your week? If so, ignore my grinch-like ramblings. But make an effort to have those sorts of days...

confessions: the anti-valentines day post

I posted this two years ago and it holds true today.  It’s not like I’m against Valentine’s Day. People get all happy and the pink and red come out in force. It’s hard not to catch a little of the giddiness. But I’ve always believed there should be so...

confessions: when everything seems broken

You know those people who just seem to have everything in their life together and working? Yea. I’m not one of those people. In fact, most everything I touch seems to break. I’ve blown two motors in two different vehicles and it seems I end up with the...

confessions: true love is…

Need I really say more? Valentine’s day, Shmalentine’s day. I hate the commercialization of this as much as I hate that people only ever “give thanks” during November. Show your significant other how much you love them year round — and go...

book review: Courting Cate

Book Description: When Amish farmer Pete Treger moves to Paradise Township, Pennsylvania, seeking a better life, he meets sisters Cate and Betsy Miller. Both are beautiful, but older sister Cate is known more for her sharp tongue and fiery temper than her striking...