“My kids were going to need a lot more from me, and I had to find out what that was.” When it comes to faith, children all come to a point where they want to dig deeper into the questions surrounding faith. How do we know God is real? How […]
Yearly Archives: 2018
2 “Restaurants are minefields for the socially inept.” Don Tillman is a smart man – a professor of genetics – yet, he is both socially and emotionally challenged. While he would like to start a long-term relationship with a woman, he never seems to keep their attention for more than a […]
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
2 If you are stopping by to find questions for your book club, please leave a note for me telling me where you are from! Welcome to the online book club for Emory’s Gift by W. Bruce Cameron. “With a huff, the bear backed away from the bank, and now I could clearly see […]
Online Book Club: Emory’s Gift by W. Bruce Cameron
5 “One of the most powerful things to teenagers is people proving they are devoted to them.” Parenting is hard. Parenting babies is tiring. Parenting toddlers is time-consuming. Parenting children is an adventure. Parenting teenagers is like visiting a different planet. The world teenagers are growing up in today is much […]
The Grown-Up’s Guide to Teenage Humans by Josh Shipp
“For the ones to come after you, it will be easier. … Because they won’t want things they can’t have.” The world is much different than it used to be, but those women living in the changed world still remember how it used to be – walking freely in the […]
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
1 “At that second, I think we all realized that it was Our Moon and that if it was attacked, then we were attacked.” Like any other rare phenomenon in outer space, the whole world gathers to watch as an asteroid is about to hit the moon. The calculations have been […]
Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
“The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.” Most people can name the first president of the United States, but who was the second president? John Adams did a lot for America, but is not always a figure that is […]
John Adams by David McCullough
Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling I have read all of the Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling but have not read any of her other fiction writing and I thought it was time to give it a try. I already know I want to be able to discuss the book with […]
Online Book Club February Book Announcement (Casual Vacancy by J.K. ...
1 “How do you live an authentic life with God? It always starts with the truth.” There is some mess in all of our lives. We often try to hide it and show others a life that is put together. If we were to share our truth about our messy, broken […]
In the Middle of the Mess by Sheila Walsh
“Are parents today facing issues that would have been unthinkable to their grandparents’ generation? Yep.” Parenting children today is hard. There are so many new situations to deal with, especially with technology. Cell phones, social media, cyberbullying – many of these things our own parents didn’t have to deal with […]