“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”
-Maya Angelou
If you’re like me, you feel pulled to create. It’s like a magnet, drawing your compass point to North as you navigate your world. Sometimes you have to divert around a mountain or trudge through a stream, but that guiding pole of creativity continuously pulls your compass northward. You are meant to create. Any things. All things. And the journey to discovering yourself lies through imagination and creation, trial and error, exploration and discovery.
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Book Review | Books | Musings
Enticing Writing or Emotional Manipulation?
Thoughts on The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah Overview: The Nightingale is a historical fiction romance, set in WWII occupied France. Two sisters, Vianne and Isabelle, are swept into a tenuous world where uncertainty, fear, and secrets define their futures. Vianne must consider the safety and survival of her small family […]
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The #1 Back-to-School Journaling Tip You Need
And it’s not too late to start now and save memories! I love journaling as a way to record special memories – writing has just always been a go-to for me that way! It’s great to take a few moments to reflect on the experience and savor it all over […]
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Sugar Cookie Must-Haves
I try to practice minimalism with my household items, so having high-quality, multipurpose tools is essential for me! Here are the kitchen items I can’t live without when making sugar cookies! 4. Half Sheet Baking Pans – My half sheet baking pans are total workhorses in the kitchen. I use […]
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Pub Day for Shannon Hale!
Best Friends by Shannon Hale 3 hours 11 mins It’s publication day! Shannon Hale’s latest graphic novel hits shelves today, and it is a winner: 5 stars for sure! I’m such a fan of Shannon Hale’s work that I picked up this title on audiobook, not realizing that it was […]
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The Bookbinder by Pip Williams – a review
Pip Williams is a new author for me this summer, and I’ve really enjoyed her unique take on historical fiction! Both her debut novel, The Dictionary of Lost Words, and her newest book, The Bookbinder, center on the experience of women at the Oxford University Press during WWI. The Bookbinder […]
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Empathy in reading
Khaled Hosseini’s book A Thousand Splendid Suns recently popped on in a friend’s post of Kindle sales, and seeing that title immediately transported back to the summer in college when I first read this stunning novel. It was summer 2007, and I was home from college for a few weeks […]
