We chose to visit Charleston, S.C., for our other spring break trip because it was a new city to us and it had beaches. We flew out there on a Monday and back on a Thursday. The flights to Charleston were smooth and we got in just as our rooms […]
I finished quite a few books in April as I was reading religious books for Lent. I read about by a saint, a book about the Dead Sea Scrolls, a book about the priests put in Dachau and finished a devotional book. I also got to read the newest Hunger […]
Sarah Anne’s Bookshelf – April 2025
The idea came to us a couple months ago – could we fly to NYC in the morning, spend a few hours in the city and fly home the same evening? Spring break gave us a chance to try it. We had to fly out of Columbus and to La […]
NYC Day Trip
Once kids get to college, spring breaks possibly start not matching up. That happened this year, so the college student requested visits to cities and the others wanted a beach. The college student got to visit Chicago and NYC and the other spring break was a visit to Charleston, S.C. […]
Chicago in the Spring
Spring breaks and late nights for track left me with a little less time to read in March. However, I read some interesting fiction and a great book by Mother Teresa. Here’s what I read in March: The Funeral Ladies of Ellerie County by Claire Swinarski The Funeral Ladies of […]
Sarah Anne’s Bookshelf – March 2025
Basketball ended in February so I had some more nights at home to settle in with a book. A road trip and a plane trip added to my reading time as well. I read a really good series set in Alaska and listened to a Fredrik Backman book. Here’s what […]
Sarah Anne’s Bookshelf – February 2025
January felt like a really long month! Even with it feeling long, I didn’t have quite as much reading time at night with attending quite a few basketball games. I was a bit underwhelmed by the books I read this past month, but there was a historical fiction one about […]
Sarah Anne’s Bookshelf – January 2025
When you can fly standby, you sometimes make impulsive decisions. I saw that Parker Valby was doing a holiday mile race near Tampa in December and thought one of my children would want to go run in it. She did and she loves Parker, so we made a plan to […]
Two Days in Tampa
There’s a feature with flying standby where you can pick your date and your departure airport and it will tell you the “best bets” to fly to that date. They’re the destination locations with the most seats available. When my husband and I wanted to take a quick 20th anniversary trip, […]
Boston in the Winter
How to choose my favorite reads from the 115 books I read in 2024? I picked 12 – six fiction and six non-fiction – books that stood out as ones I recommended to people after I read them. These are the books I kept thinking about and wanting to talk […]