As soon as Love Thy Body arrived, Miss 15 asked permission to read it and ran off with it. Who better to teach her than Nancy Pearcey? But after a while she came back. “I don’t like it. You will, though.” And later, to someone else, she said, “It hits all the hot button topics, […]
Reviews: Nonfiction
Review: 52 Ways to Connect with Your Smartphone Obsessed Kid by Jonathan McKee
Smartphone use, a huge social experiment that some say is leading to disaster, needs to change. We all need to learn to be ‘smarter than our smartphones.’ And while we parents are trying to learn this, we need to be teaching our teens as well. That’s a tall order, especially since the devices are addicting. […]
Want your family to be healthier?
Want your family to be healthier? Me, too. We have all heard that many of the health conditions many of us deal with are modern-day issues, from the increase in cancer and heart disease to the explosion of autoimmune diseases and mental illness. Undoubtedly these conditions are partly related to things we have no control […]
Review: Home is Beyond the Mountains by Celia Barker Lottridge
Nine-year- old Samira and her family flee their Persian village when the Turks invade at the end of World War 1. After travelling through deserts and over mountains, facing hardship and unimaginable tragedy, she finally arrives in Baqubah, alone. Anna, a girl her own age, reaches out to her and they move from camp to […]