The original plan was to fly standby to Boston early in the morning and come back that evening. However, flights filled up and we had to go with Plan B – Washington, D.C. I took two daughters and one of their friends with me on this trip. We got up […]

Day trip to Washington, D.C.

I read some very interesting books in July. One was about a psychiatrist who prescribed cats instead of medicine. One was a historical fiction book about the heiress of the Post cereal fortune. I finished a true classic. I also read a second book this year about a woman who […]

Sarah Anne’s Bookshelf – July 2025

Only 6 books in June? I know that “only” just for me. We painted the interior of our house in June after living here for almost 12 years. So, it was a lot of work prepping, cleaning, sorting and moving all of our things. I would fall asleep so fast […]

Sarah Anne’s Bookshelf – June 2025

Flying six people on standby for vacation is totally possibly – if you’re flexible. Five of us flew out of one city and one flew out of another city but we got there and back pretty easily.  On Memorial Day, we flew into Tampa with just one connection. We got […]

Summer Vacation in Tampa

May was a very full month! I had another child graduate high school! I also weeded all of our flower beds and gardens, planted a garden, put out the hummingbird feeder and took a family vacation to Tampa. Nights and Sundays were full of reading when we were home and […]

Sarah Anne’s Bookshelf – May 2025

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 […]

Charleson, S.C., in the Spring

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