• real life

    A Picture Summary

    The last few months of last year I was pretty much in survival mode. Here are the highlights of that time: Near the end of September, my grammy went to to be with the Lord. She was 90 years old, and I will forever be grateful that her decline, while it was a hell week, was only a week. This picture was taken just a couple weeks prior. I don’t think I’ll ever come to a stage where I don’t miss her. For my 30th birthday weekend the Courtneys came out, and we conquered corn mazes and it was a great time with friends. …And my big ‘finale’ to 30 before…

  • family,  real life

    A bit late, but hello 2016

      Hello 2016, You’re now 11 days old, somehow. So far you’ve started with a bang and (hopefully) the last bit of the Snowpocalypse . 2015 saw my family saying good bye to three family members as they left this life. 2016 you are not starting off on a good foot by us also saying good bye to another uncle. You’re the first year I won’t have my grammy around. I know some day that will become real, but it still has not. It barely had become real that grandpa was gone. Irrevocable change has happened, and there will be more to come. I am just hoping it will be of…

  • books

    2015 Reading List

    Two Renegade Realms by Donita K Paul The Selection by Kiera Cass The Elite by Kiera Cass The One by Kiera Cass Seven Kinds of Hell by Dana Cameron Mind Monsters by Kevin Gerald Jesus Feminist by Sarah Bessey Through the Door by Jodi McIsaac Red by Kate Serine Grimm Consequences by Kate Serine Ruby Slippers by Jonalyn Grace Fincher Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie Dangerous Books for Girls by Maya Rodale Paper Towns by John Green In the Company of Others by Julie E Czerneda The Taking by Dean Koontz Percy Jackson’s Greek Gods by Rick Riordan Ravenswolde by Charity Bishop Sir Addam the Insomniac by Naomi Partridge Looking for Alaska by John Green The Best Yes by Lysa TerKeurst The Merlin Conspiracy by Dianna Wynne Jones The Crown of Ptolemy by Rick Riordan Magnus Chase The Sword of Summer by Rick Riordan Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cramer A Lady of Resources by Shelly Adina Lucent Sylph by RJ Conte The 12th Girl in Heaven by RJ Conte The Hotline Girl by RJ Conte Farseer by Griffin Asher As years go,  2015 I did fairly well in having a few nonfiction books peppered in. I also started The Hope Quotient, but did not finish it. 2015 was another good one for books, as there are very few on this list which I found forgettable. Most in fact were very good.