Books & Reading Guest Post: Need a New Start? 5 Steps to Restart Your Career By Fred Stuvek, Jr. Ronda Bowen, August 24, 2020September 2, 2020 Today’s guest post comes author Fred Stuvek Jr., author of Don’t F*** This Up!: A Guide for Students and Graduates or Anyone Making a Fresh Start as part of a virtual book tour. ### There are numerous reasons why someone changes jobs, and it is much more commonplace than in… Continue Reading
Books & Reading Book Blitz: A Time-Traveler’s Guide Through the Multiuniverse Ronda Bowen, August 14, 2020September 1, 2020 Science Fiction, Time Travel, Sci-fi Rom-com Date Published: July 2020 Publisher: Carrick Publishing Enrico Fermi wasn’t the last physicist who was both an experimental and theoretical genius, but Professor Gail Hoff will never receive the Nobel Prize. She wants to travel through time but discovers she can only go… Continue Reading
Books & Reading Review: Usborne Little Children’s Drawing Book Ronda Bowen, August 12, 2020December 13, 2021 My littlest gal is so happy. She got to review something for the blog. Timberdoodle sent us Usborne Little Children’s Drawing Book ($6) for us to review. It’s a good thing too. With her big sister taking on Artistic Pursuits this year, she’s going to want some art lessons of her own. Long… Continue Reading
Books & Reading Book Blitz: The Soul Collector by Laura Dalco Ronda Bowen, August 12, 2020September 1, 2020 Dark Fantasy, Supernatural Suspense Publisher: Story Bound Publishing As I lay trapped inside this quiet realm, My soul adrift, my body earthbound, A magical book guards my flight, Will it keep me safe till morning’s light? It begins with darkness. Are they dead, or trapped inside… Continue Reading
Education & Homeschooling Review: Plus-Plus Learn to Build Jewelry Ronda Bowen, August 11, 2020December 13, 2021 I recently had the opportunity to review the Plus-Plus Learn to Build Jewelry kit with my first grader thanks to the Brilliant Minds program. While I did receive reimbursement for my purchase of the kit, all opinions are my own. The short story: the kit was a hit. What Learn to Build… Continue Reading
Books & Reading Book Tour: Q&A with Lucy Rose Fischer, Author of ‘The Journalist’ Ronda Bowen, August 11, 2020September 1, 2020 In the early 1960s, Jerry Rose, a writer and artist traveled to Vietnam to teach English and gather material for his writing. He became one of America’s most important war correspondents and interviewed Vietnamese villagers. Through his writing and photographs, he was able to expose the beginnings of the Vietnam… Continue Reading
Books & Reading Book Tour: Inferno of Silence by Tolu A. Akinyemi Book Excerpt Ronda Bowen, August 7, 2020September 1, 2020 Excerpt from the Story “Inferno of Silence” Kunle dropped his bag on the dining table. The table was starting to creak from all the unplanned baggage it silently bore. He enjoyed taking the ferry a few minutes from his office. Not only did it afford him a few minutes of… Continue Reading
Books & Reading Mrs. P., Your Hair’s On Fire! Blitz Ronda Bowen, August 3, 2020December 13, 2021 Middle-Grade BookPublished Date: August 3, 2020Publisher: INtense Publications LLC Jang consistently bullies his eighth grade science teacher, Mrs. P with mean and annoying pranks; but some of his classmates have had enough. They give Jang a dose of his own medicine with a prank of their own. Unexpectedly, Jang becomes a hero… Continue Reading
Education & Homeschooling Review: Gobblet Gobblers Ronda Bowen, July 31, 2020December 13, 2021 Disclaimer: I received the game Gobblet Gobblers from Timberdoodle in exchange for an honest review of the product. All opinions are my own and my children’s. A lot of people are gameschooling, and it’s easy to see why. In fact, when I was homeschooling my big kid, we would do a… Continue Reading
Education & Homeschooling Welcome to Justitia STEAM & Classical Academy Ronda Bowen, July 16, 2020December 13, 2021 As you know from my talking about the curriculum we’ll be using for first grade, we’re planning to homeschool for the 2020-2021 school year. We’re now all set up on paper for that. I’ve filed with Kansas, and in doing that, I needed to (well, we needed to) come up with… Continue Reading