What Helps Me Survive the Holidays
What Helps Me Survive the Holidays For as long as I can remember, I’ve opened my doors to people who felt their family was either too much or not enough. Family can be overwhelming, so I created little moments for…
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Things That Remember
Things That Remember There is a belief that things can hold memories; the objects we surround ourselves with somehow keep pieces of what happens around them.We also choose things specifically to help us remember. A journal can keep our secrets.…
Things for Claiming Your Corner
Things for Claiming Your Corner Living with other people can be complicated. The house belongs to everyone, which makes having a little space of your own even more important. A corner you can claim without judgment or argument, where the…
Fantasy Books Where Old Traditions Demand a Price
Fantasy Books Where Old Traditions Demand a Price Old traditions have a way of outliving the people who created them. Sometimes everyone remembers exactly why they began. Other times, people simply keep paying a price without asking who benefits from…
The Good Soup Chronicles | Library Dispatch #36
The Good Soup Chronicles Library Dispatch #36 | The Unseen Observer Observation Resident was discovered conducting surveillance from behind the library railing. Resident appeared confident that her position provided complete concealment. It did not. Assessment Resident’s understanding of camouflage remains…
Books About Inheritance, Secrets & What Families Leave Behind
Books About Inheritance, Secrets & What Families Leave Behind Inheritance isn’t always something we ask for. Sometimes it’s a gift or a source of power. Other times it’s a secret, an obligation, an old story, or something buried long before…
Fantasy Books Where Home Is Complicated
Fantasy Books Where Home Is Complicated Home can mean very different things depending on how we feel when we’re there. It can be the place where we belong, the place we’re desperate to escape, a community we’re willing to protect,…
Review of The Woodsmoke Women’s Book of Spells by Rachel Greenlaw
Review of The Woodsmoke Women’s Book of Spells by Rachel Greenlaw Fantasy | Magical Realism | Romance | Witches There is a promising foundation here, but I felt the story spent considerably more time exploring everyone’s feelings than developing the…
Books About the People We Choose to Keep
Books About the People We Choose to Keep Some stories take the word family and turn it into something different, sometimes something more palatable than what the word traditionally means. Family can be found. It can be built from the…
November 2026 Motivation: What the Hearth Keeps
Opening Letter November 2026 Motivation November has a way of bringing our attention back to the things we carry with us. The people who make room for us, the places that feel like home, the memories we hold close, and…