Last month at my book club, I was handed a title that I knew nothing about. Since I'm not in charge of choosing our monthly selections, ...

(This post contains affiliate links. Please see my  disclosure policy  for full details.) We're one month in and we're just starting...

Reading is important. In the schedule of our daily homeschool, it's second only to our Morning Time when we open God's Word and grow...

We're heading into our summer schedule. In the next few days, we'll set aside our formal academics and take a looser approach to lea...

A few months ago, I put in several Requests to Purchase at my local library.* I had heard about many soon-to-hit-shelves books that were com...

Confession time: I experience an embarrassing amount of satisfaction when one of my kids is reluctant to read a book that I've suggested...

We're only three weeks into the new year and I've already bought four new books. I might have a book buying addiction. Then again, s...

At the close of every calendar year, usually on some cold December afternoon, I pull out my running list of "Books We've Read Toget...

Libby has been a kind companion to me this past month. Even during a rather busy season, I've been able to slam through a handful of tit...

This past Thursday, I hosted the first meeting of the year for my son's tween/teen book club. Since there are six new members, we used q...

(This post contains affiliate links. Please see my disclosure policy for full details.) All month, I've been sorting through and vettin...

July is a month on the go for my family. In the next few weeks, some or all of us will go from Minnesota to Arizona to Pennsylvania to Washi...

Late spring was no friend to my reading life. While I was busy trying to wrap up the school year--speak at my last homeschool conference of ...

Since the moment I was old enough to stumble my way through the one-vowel words of a Dick and Jane classic, I've been told never to judg...

This past weekend while speaking at the annual North Dakota Homeschool Association conference, I received a lovely card from Wendy, a long-t...

We're now deep into the first month of the new year and while my kids and I have started many books these past few weeks, we haven't...

Our read-aloud time in 2020 was bittersweet. We read so many great books and made so many literary memories together, but we made most of th...

I've hit the reading lottery this month! At the end of November, I chose to start two books written by new-to-me authors--one fiction an...

The other day, my youngest three sons asked if they could have a later bedtime in order that they could stay up to read. Of course, I let th...

All good things must come to an end. Or at least that's what I've been told. After 16 years of sitting by my side for our daily read...