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    Slice of Life Day 4: Blog Comments

    coding

    I’m not an IT person by any stretch of the imagination! I can do the basic turn it off, turn it back on again suggestions and can Google answers to a lot of things, but an IT person I am not. That being said, when I realized yesterday that I…

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    Slice of Life Day 3: Musicals

    sheet music

    I’m loving the new television series, Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist, on NBC. I don’t have cable television but came across this fun musical series on Hulu. The basic storyline is about Zoey who works as a computer programmer in a hip office space filled with male coworkers and a really angry…

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    Slice of Life Day 2: Meeting Authors

    drawing

    I’ve been lucky in my life to meet countless children’s and young adult authors. Granted, being a librarian and book blogger does have it’s advantages! But I also met authors as a kid at school visits, the public library, and at other programs and festivals. Our school district had Robin…

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    Slice of Life Day 1: How Many Books?!?!

    reading

    Today is Day 1 of my 2020 Slice of Life Challenge! I often get incredulous looks and this common response when people find out how many books I read. “You read how many books?!?!?!” Many probably think they’d rather do a hundred other things than sit down with a book.…

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    Slice of Life Challenge

    writing challenge

    There are only a few more days left in February which means that the Slice of Life challenge by Two Writing Teachers is getting ready to kick-off on March 1st. I participated last year and was so surprised by how many comments I received on my blog and in person…

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    Slice of Life: Yoga Journey

    yoga feet

    As I spent an afternoon mindlessly scrolling through Twitter before the New Year, I stumbled upon a 30-Day Yoga Journey. Adriene offered a yoga practice for 30 days in a row to start off the new year. I signed up on a whim and thought it would be something fun…

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    Slice of Life: Family Traditions

    presents

    Today I could have posted a collection of books about Kwanzaa as we’re in the middle of the holiday now or re-posted my birthday books post since I’m celebrating another year around the sun, but I’d rather share a little slice of life post about family traditions after spending a…

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    Slice of Life Day 31: One Challenge Down…

    alphabet

    I’m so glad I tried a new challenge this year! A lot of my family enjoyed reading the posts and I’ve had more comments on these posts than many of my other posts on my blog. Tomorrow starts the next challenge on my blog. The Blogging from A to Z…

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    Slice of Life Day 30: Full House & a Busy Day

    grill

    My parents, brother, sister-in-law, niece, nephew and my parent’s dog are staying at my place for the weekend! It’s been a very busy day already – we went out for breakfast, walked down to the playground, played outside, ran to the grocery store, had lunch, went back outside to play,…

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    Slice of Life Day 29: How Much Do Windows Cost?

    windows

    So yesterday afternoon we had a meeting about replacing a few of our windows in the house. Since buying the house we’ve been slowly updating it. Of course, spending money on a new furnace replacing all the exterior doors and the biggest window known to mankind (6 ft. tall x…