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Love Gently Falling by Melody Carlson

Reviewed by Martha Artyomenko About the Book: Rita Jansen is living her dream as a hairstylist in Hollywood when her father calls with news that her mother has suffered a stroke. When she gets home to Chicago, Rita finds her mother is healing but facing a long...

Old Fashioned by Rene Gutteridge

Reviewed by Martha Artyomenko About the Book: Former frat boy Clay Walsh has given up his reckless lifestyle and settled down to run an antique shop in a small Midwestern college town. Determined to put his partying ways behind him, Clay has become notorious for his...

2014 is coming to a close…

I am laying here in contemplation.  The house is quiet. I can choose to worry about my children at their various endeavors tonight. Or I can simply reflect on the past year, the upcoming one and all the wonderful things throughout. This year has not been the easiest...

2014 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here's an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 6,800 times in 2014. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 6 trips to...

The Princess Spy by Melanie Dickerson

Reviewed by Martha Artyomenko Book Description Margaretha has always been a romantic, and she hopes her newest suitor, Lord Claybrook, is destined to be her one true love. But then an injured man is brought to Hagenheim Castle, claiming to be an English lord who was...

MFW Week’s 16, 17, 18 and 19

The homeschooling weeks are going by in a blur! We have been busy with getting up, pushing through school, basketball and getting ready for the holidays. We have had all sorts of transportation issues in the last month. I feel like I live in a fog half the time! I...

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