In December, I challenged myself to better my mornings and, perhaps, my whole day. Instead of opening my laptop and starting the mindless scroll of social media over coffee every morning, I wondered if starting the day with quiet writing and reading time would feel restorative and centering. The short answer: yes. YES. This month,…
Inspired by the final A Month of Favorites prompt, I’m sharing my 5 most popular blog posts from 2014 (surprisingly, one of them was published in 2013!) as well as my own personal favorite posts of the year. 1. Raising a Less Reluctant Reader: 13 Suggestions for Parents was–by far–my most popular post this year. In…
Ruth Ayres hosts a weekly celebration at her blog. I appreciate this invitation to reflect on the positives of my week. It’s fitting that my 400th blog post comes on a Celebration Saturday. 400 isn’t really a traditional number to celebrate, like 100 or 500, but it’s a nice big round number, and there is…
Top Ten Tuesday is a feature hosted by The Broke and Bookish. This week’s topic? Blogging confessions. 1. I don’t track stats. I have no idea how many followers I have, how many page views, how many anything. I do know which of my posts has the most views of all time, but that’s…
Ruth Ayres hosts a weekly celebration on her blog. I appreciate this invitation to reflect on the positives of my week. 1. Even though the soccer season means some incredibly long drives to get to games, I am sorry it’s over. I love watching my son play, and we have seen a real transformation in…
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and Bookish. This week, they ask for our top ten reasons to love reading and/or book blogging. My list focuses on book blogging. 1. Being part of a community of readers. This is my favorite part of blogging–the other readers, teachers, librarians I have…
Students in my Adolescent Literature class are blogging on their own WordPress sites as a course requirement. Most of these students are new to blogging. I love to have students teach students whenever I can, so on Wednesday, my blogging rock star, Kelsey, gave us a tour of her blog, taught us how to do…
