Last week I listened to “The Healer” by Gregg Luke on my Deseret Bookshelf app. I laughed when I heard the following, “There was the usual assortment of medical books and journals, but he also noticed a number of fictional works, particularly those of Emily Brontë, Jane Austin, Elizabeth Browning, and Sarah Eden.” (chapter 32) […]

Ming’s Christmas Wishes is a different Christmas book that teaches about loving & embracing your heritage even as you navigate a new culture.

Do you know who Nancy Wake was? How about Pat Patton? Donald Bailey? Dickey Chapelle? They are just a few of the brave, unsung heroes of World War II that you will learn more about in Jerry Borrowman’s latest book, Invisible Heroes of World War II: Extraordinary Wartime Stories of Ordinary People. The book features […]

I drove with Debbie to town today so she could take her last final of the school year. When I picked her up the first thing I asked her was, “Now that you have time, what book are you going to read first?” Our family loves to read, all types of genres, but mostly good […]

Are your kids as fascinated with ladybugs as mine are? Whenever we are in the garden or walking in the alfalfa fields they are on the lookout for ladybugs. Bonus points to anyone who can find orange ones! We recently received a really cute book that appeals to the kids’ ladybug loving hearts. Ladybug’s Garden […]

It’s rare to find someone who has not read at least one of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s books. The depiction of her growing up years in the American prairie has captured the imagination of generations. What lessons we have learned from the hard working Ingalls family: obedience, perseverance, duty, love! As you read my stories of […]

Do you personally know any authors in real life? I can say I do! It’s not everyday you get to read and review a friend’s book. Oh, and interview her too. I’m pretty excited to share it with you today! “Hiding unbelievable physical abilities, seventeen-year-old Desiree Morgan buries herself inside the realities of high school. […]

Ever on the lookout for ways to teach my children that our home is a sacred space for them to feel loved I was excited to be approached by Deseret Book to review this new book by Kristen M. Oaks, My Home Can Be a Holy Place. Throughout the pages of the book we watch […]

If you were given the chance to write or gather some words of wisdom before you died what would you include? It’s an interesting question to think about. Not many of us would have that opportunity but one who did was Boyd K. Packer. President Packer was born in 1924, the tenth of eleven children. His […]

It’s happened again. Only this time its even better! I’m talking about the second Girls Who Choose God  book by McArthur Krishna and Bethany Spalding. I shared the first book last year. It features eleven women from the Bible. This year’s release is all about the strong women in the Book of Mormon. Yes! Here, I’ll […]

Hey you, sitting there wishing for something, anything to fill the emptiness inside. Or maybe you are pretty happy about life right now but feel there is something more that can be done to make it better. We’ve all had those days, the good and the bad and the somewhere in-between. How do we go about making […]