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Winter Challenge: Channel Someone
Today’s challenge is to channel someone. Kayla said it could be anyone, whether or not they are famous, and I almost immediately settled on my dear friend Bethany. She’s a blog friend turned real friend (we overlapped in Boston by about six months) and I am awe of her in practically every way. She is truly one of the kindest…
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The Lions of Little Rock by Kristin Levine
Two years after the fact, I still consider The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had one of my favorite books. So when The Lions of Little Rock arrived – a second Kristin Levine book – I read it almost immediately. The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had is set in a general period of race conflict in the American South,…
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And the Winners Are
Y’all know that I am a complete nerd about book awards and so it was rather heartbreaking to leave Dallas before the big youth media awards were announced. Still, I made Ella sit at the computer with me first thing Monday morning and watch the webcast with me (she was not as enthusiastic as she might have been. . ….
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Winter Challenge: Embrace a Trend
I didn’t realize what a luxury it was to have the last challenge during the summer where the sun never stopped shining in Austin. It was PLENTY bright enough inside to take decent pictures. These last couple of overcast days, however, have made my life hard (yes, whine, whine). Today’s theme is Embrace a Trend and it seemed like the…
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