Monthly Archives: June 2016

Disaster Prep — You’ll find that I am also listed as a guest blogger for All Mom Does, a Web site for moms. I’ve written six blog posts for them – five on disaster preparedness and one book review. The disaster preparedness series was written int he fall of 2015 and the book […]

All Mom Does Guest Blogger

This entry was posted in Writing and tagged All Mom Does writing on June 29, 2016 by Sarah Anne Carter

How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting ...

This entry was posted in Reading and tagged Non-Fiction parenting on June 27, 2016 by Sarah Anne Carter

“Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.” Jacob is a peculiar who can see the deadly hollows when no one else can. He can even sense them when they are near. His grandfather also had that power, but Jacob […]

Hollow City by Ransom Riggs
This entry was posted in Reading and tagged Fiction Young Adult Fiction on June 24, 2016 by Sarah Anne Carter

I keep my eye out for old cookbooks when I go to thrift stores or garage sales. They are part of the books we keep on hand for reference material and I like to buy old cookbooks for many reasons. By “old,” I mean cookbooks from the early 1980’s or […]

“7 Reasons to Buy Old Cookbooks” for The Survival Mom
This entry was posted in Writing and tagged survival mom writing on June 22, 2016 by Sarah Anne Carter

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“Freedom requires virtue; virtue requires faith; and faith requires freedom.” The founding of America was based on something new – ideals. A group of people came together bound by the idea of freedom and created a self-governing country. When a woman asked Ben Franklin what the founders had created, he […]

If You Can Keep It: The Forgotten Promise of American ...
This entry was posted in Reading and tagged Non-Fiction on June 20, 2016 by Sarah Anne Carter

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“I’m sorry to say that the book you are holding in your hands is extremely unpleasant. It tells an unhappy tale about three very unlucky children.” This is the first book in a 13-book series called A Series of Unfortunate Events. It sets up the story of the Baudelaire siblings […]

The Bad Beginning
by Lemony Snicket
This entry was posted in Reading and tagged Fiction Young Adult Fiction on June 17, 2016 by Sarah Anne Carter

When I was a freshman at Baylor University, I got a job working at the student newspaper, The Lariat, as a night news editor. It was the spring semester of 1998. It mainly involved editing stories and doing some layout. A few nights, I got to help put the paper […]

Going way back to college days: Baylor University newspaper editorials
This entry was posted in Writing and tagged editorial writing on June 15, 2016 by Sarah Anne Carter

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“Everyone joins a band in this life —and that music, like love, has the power to affect us all.” At the funeral of Frankie Presto, Music (the spirit) shows up to tell the tale of Frankie’s life – the true one that no soul ever knew completely and Frankie himself […]

The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto by Mitch Albom
This entry was posted in Reading and tagged Fiction on June 13, 2016 by Sarah Anne Carter

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“I promise to always turn back toward you.” Looking out of her bedroom window, 10-year-old Flora sees a squirrel get sucked up by a vacuum that is being tested outdoors by her neighbor. She quickly heads over to rescue the squirrel only to find out it now has superpowers as […]

Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures by Kate DiCamillo
This entry was posted in Reading and tagged Fiction Young Adult Fiction on June 10, 2016 by Sarah Anne Carter

Do you know how to make your own sewing patterns? Here is a post I wrote for The Survival Mom about how I do it. Sewing is a great skill to know and some people are extremely skilled to the point of artistry. I’ll be honest, though, if you have a […]

Survival Mom DIY: Homemade Sewing Patterns
This entry was posted in Writing and tagged survival mom writing on June 4, 2016 by Sarah Anne Carter

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