Today on Mom~E~Centric I’m talking about why it’s important to schedule in time that’s just for moms. Even if you’re in a mother-daughter book club you can benefit from getting the moms together for a little fun away from the girls. The younger members of the group probably see each other without the older members [...]
Beth Morrissey at Hell or High Water is a former school librarian turned freelance writer. Her blog is a great place to go all kinds of helpful information about writing. Today, I’m fortunate enough to be featured in a guest post about how I believe good readers also make good writers. Check out the post [...]
Today is Drop Everything and Read (D.E.A.R.) day, a wonderful time dedicated to the joy of reading. When my daughters were young, they had D.E.A.R. time every day in elementary school. In middle school this time was known as SSR or Silent Sustained Reading. Not nearly as fun as D.E.A.R. right? D.E.A.R. makes me think [...]
This past weekend I had the chance to travel with two other book-club moms down to the University of Oregon where we met our three daughters. Since our book-club girls graduated from high school last spring, we’ve been searching for ways to keep the group active and involved, and parents’ weekend at school was a [...]
Last week the moms in my mother-daughter book club gathered for the third lecture of the Literary Arts speaker series we’re attending. The speaker was Christopher Hitchens, a polarizing figure if there is one. Hitchens is the author of God is not Great: How Religion Ruins Everything. It’s a provocative title for a provocative book [...]
When I was growing up in southern Louisiana we celebrated many holidays with the same traditions each year: chicken barbecues and egg boxing for Easter, crawfish boils on Mother’s Day, fish fries and dances for my parents’ anniversary on the 4th of July, crab boils and German chocolate cake for my birthday in August, All [...]
I recently discovered a line of teas I think make great gifts for readers. It’s called Novel Teas and it’s packaged by Bag Ladies Tea. For the past few days I’ve been sipping on my own cups of tea made with Novel Tea bags. The tags are stamped with sayings by writers, such as the [...]
Last night my daughter, Madeleine and I went to dinner with our mother-daughter book club members. After more than eight years in the club together, the girls all started college in August and September. This was the first time they were home after the end of their first terms, and the first time we were [...]
