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 silence before his wife got …
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 after he saves Mrs. P’s …
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 morning board game between our …
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 a name for our homeschool. …
As we’re gearing up for a fall where we’ll be homeschooling, a lot of people have asked how I get things done. The short answer is, sometimes I don’t get things done, and maybe that’s more okay than I think it is. The longer answer is I use a lot of lists, and I try …
Today’s guest post comes from Diana Forest. Enjoy! Do you spend more time than usual at home with the kids at the moment? With children who are also sufficiently alert to become restless? You’re not alone! Here we have gathered our best tips on things to do with the little kids. Staying at home with …
Contemporary fiction with a speculative element Date Published: May 14, 2020 Publisher: Black Rose Writing No one knew it at the time, but April 19, 2011, was the most important day in the history of the world. After his only friend and colleague, John Manta, disappears without a word, Dave Randall further entrenches himself in …
Today’s post comes from Bill Marcia at Stags Leap. Have you ever heard of the term wine “legs”? Do you know what they look like and what they signify? The wine’s legs are the droplets that you see on the walls of the glass after swirling your drink. They are a demonstration of the Gibbs-Marangoni …
Today’s going to be no different from any other day since the start of summer – well except for the fact that I’m a bit more spry than I was even a few days ago. We’ll start our day out with a healthy breakfast from Skinnytaste. Then we’ll have our morning clean-up hour. This is …
It’s close to anniversary time, again. My husband and I just celebrated our 8th wedding anniversary in May – in probably the weirdest way possible considering current events. That’s okay though. It also means that it’s been about eight years since I shifted this blog from being “Not Quite Ally McBeal” – a blog where …
