We Survived the First Day Back to School in A Pandemic

Well…we did it.   We survived the first day back to school.  After 3:30 today I can say we survived the first “week” back to school too.  I am not going to go into what our school is doing or anything like that.  Not gonna go there.  However, I have documented some other, for me [...]

My Thoughts on Censorship in America Today and a Look Back on My Thoughts on Censorship in America From 2012

Before this website I started a blog : Made the Flowers Myself.  In 2012 I wrote a post about my thoughts on having just read Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury in juxtaposition with my husband, Jason, having just bought our first e-reader.  I am going to repost what I wrote in 2012 down below, at [...]

Book Review: Liar Temptress Soldier Spy Four Women Undercover in the Civil War by Karen Abbot

  Liar Temptress Soldier Spy Four Women Undercover in the Civil War by Karen Abbott I am blown away by how Karen Abbott was able to take a non-fiction book, over 4 years of real life events, intertwined with 4 real people’s live’s stories during the Civil War and make it read like a story.  A [...]