For the past three weeks, life has been busy caring for teen grandgirls while our daughter and her husband are in Portugal. We thoroughly enjoyed spending time with the girls and other than missing our own bed, would gladly do it again. Now their parents have had to trade in their t-shirts and jeans for […]

I love to read about successful people and try to learn how they succeeded. Knowing other people were able to overcome obstacles motivates me to do the same. Here are some tips for success that I recently came across: 1. No excuses. Many famous actors, music artists, inventors, etc., had special challenges ranging from learning […]

Do You Have a Book In You? If you have always wanted to write a book, why not start with an ebook? This is a photo of my mother who wrote many books before she passed away. Everyone is an expert at something and other people would love to know what you have to say. […]

You’ve probably heard the saying that inside every person is a book waiting to be written. With the ability to self-publish, it can now become a reality, but often we make the process too difficult. That is, we adults make it difficult. Watch the video explanation that this eight-year-old girl gives about how to not […]

Here’s another great book that you and your older grandchildren will enjoy reading. It’s called ‘Anne Frank and Me‘ and tells the story of a modern teen who visits a Holocaust museum with her class and is transported back to the days of Anne Frank. Since much of the story takes place in the concentration […]

I prefer reading young people’s novels, rather than adult ones. My reason – a great story and often very well written, but without the added sex and violence that an adult novel usually thinks it has to have. One that I recently enjoyed and think your teen or pre-teen grandchild might too, is called ‘The […]