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Book Review books Mother's Day School

Teacher Appreciation Week & Mother’s Day

May 10, 2018 Kelly 0 Comments gift cards, gift ideas for teachers, If I Could Keep You Little, Marianne Richmond, mother's day, mother's day presents, teacher appreciation week, teacher gifts

We should not need a calendar event to celebrate the goodness and hard work of educators and mothers, but Hallmark

Tell Me Your Dreams. A Bedtime Story Book Review

April 30, 2018 Kelly 0 Comments bedtime story, Mascot Books, Molly Doss, Tell Me Your Dreams, Tze-Chiang Lim

Tell Me Your Dreams is a children’s book by Molly Doss that would make for a great bedtime story for

Book Review Moms Pregnancy Product Review Publications

Book Review of “Unbound” by Jamie Sumner

April 23, 2018April 23, 2018 Kelly 4 Comments book review, Christian Living, Christian Living/Motherhood, IVF, Jamie Sumner, memoir, miscarriage, motherhood, non-fiction, pregnancy, Unbound, Unbound-Finding Freedom from Unrealistic Expectations of Motherhood

The journey to motherhood is often not an easy and direct path. Author Jamie Sumner knows this lesson all too

Book Review books Cleaning DIY Moms Spring

Audio Books are the Key to Spring Cleaning Survival

March 26, 2018 Kelly 0 Comments A Life in Parts, A Little Bit Wicked, Aaron Sorkin, Amy Schumer, Anna Kendrick, Argo, audio books, Breaking Bad, Bryan Cranston, chic lit, chic lit books, chic lit lovers, Dad is Fat, Jim Gaffigan, Joni Rodgers, Kevin Hart, Key & Peele, Kristin Chenoweth, Malcolm in the Middle, narrator voice, Pitch Perfect, Satursday Night Live, Scrappy Little Nobody author narrates, Seinfeld, Sneaky Pete, SNL, spring cleaning, The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo, The Last Black Unicorn, Tiffany Haddish, West Wing

Spring cleaning are two words that make me cringe. Really, any word associated with cleaning makes me sluggish and resentful.

Book Review Product Review Publications

Black Hills FACES–Get Your Copy Now

December 14, 2017 Kelly 0 Comments Black Hills FACES Magazine, East River, midwest, print only magazine, South Dakota

When I began my foray into freelance writing, approximately two years ago, I had no idea how much Family Footnote

Book Review books Education Family Moms Parenting

Good Things are Happening

November 13, 2017November 13, 2017 Kelly 2 Comments Be Kind & Rewind, CandyMakers, Cloak & Dagger, computer coding, Goonies, Harry Potter, Heroes in Training, Hunger Games, Innerspace, John Sandford, journaling, Karate Kid, kid president, landline phones, live experiments, Maze Runner, Meg Cabot, peer learning, ridley pearson, secondhand smoke, smartgirls, Sweet Valley High, ted-ed, text messages, texting, the Divergent Trilogy, Unwanteds, VHS, YA, young adult fiction

There is a lot of negative in today’s world, and I am always hearing about the “good old days”. I

Book Review books Goals Travel Uncategorized Writing

Kelly and Her Dad Met John Sandford

October 21, 2017October 21, 2017 Tessa 2 Comments books signings, John Sanford, Kelly J. Riibe, Virgil Flowers

This past week Tessa wrote about her personal bucket list, and Kelly has a post coming out next week on

Book Review books

What My Daughters and I Read this Summer

September 18, 2017September 18, 2017 Kelly 5 Comments A Man Called Ove, book series, chic lit, Dean Hale, Fredrick Backman, graphic novels, Katie Kazoo, Kristan Higgins, Lisa Kusel, Lisa McMann, Nancy Krulik, Princess in Black, Roller Girl, Shannon Hale, Switcheroo, Unwanteds, Victoria Jamieson

The Fall Equinox is happening on September 22nd this year, so it is officially time to say good-bye to summer.

Book Giveaway Winners

August 19, 2017 Kelly 0 Comments book giveaway, Lisa Kusel, Rash

Congrats to Maria Watkins and Robin Berger for winning copies of Lisa Kusel’s memoir. If you missed Kelly’s book review

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BOOK REVIEW: Rash (A Memoir) by Lisa Kusel

August 7, 2017 Kelly 1 Comment Anti-Eat Pray Love, Bali, Balinese, book review, Lisa Kusel, memoir, Rash

Lisa Kusel described her recent memoir, titled Rash, as “A bit of an anti-“Eat, Pray, Love” sort of tale, in