One holiday tradition my mom always wanted to do with us but never did is celebrate Kwanzaa. She did educate me on what it is and what everything means, but we never got around to ever doing it. But now that I’m starting my own family, I wanted to do celebrate this year (even if…
No post today because I’ll be spending the day with my little family: my 2 dogs and my hubs. We’ll be making the best of this holiday since we can’t be in Louisiana like we planned. Hope everyone else is staying safe and taking precautions but still having a fun holiday! Did any of you…
Thanksgiving may look a little different this year, but I hope y’all are still thinking of the things y’all are most thankful for! 2020 has been a dumpster fire of a year, but I’ve still had some amazing things to come out of it: Future Baby Shaw, working from home so I can (maybe) hit…
READy to Talk is a new discussion meme that will come up few and far between, just when I have something bookish on my mind. Something that I want to get y’alls opinion on! I realized that I told y’all about the job, but I never told y’all the outcome?! That makes me…
READy to Talk is a new discussion meme that will come up few and far between, just when I have something bookish on my mind. Something that I want to get y’alls opinion on! This time this is going to be a little different. Not exactly a topic, but more of an update…
Happy Labor Day everyone! I hope you have a great last day of summer! And remember, no wearing white after today lol What did you do today? Did you BBQ? Spend your last day of summer swimming or something? Let me know in the comments!
Hi everyone! There’s not post today because we thought we were getting a pretty large hurricane, but by the grace of God it turned just in time not to touch us. I was hosting my parents, my sisters, and my nephew thinking the worst would get them, but it went to our neighbors, Louisiana. So…
With this month being Romance Awareness Month, I wanted to touch on something that I didn’t realize was an issue until I became a librarian. I’m a YA librarian, but since I’m 1 of 2 people at my branch that actually read, and the ONLY one who actually reads romance, I have to do the…
Yesterday was a day that I grew up celebrating my whole life, Juneteenth. From parades, to visiting where the Emancipation Proclamation was read, my family has done it all. So seeing L.L. McKinney and Saraciea J. Fennell put together an all Black Book Festival had me in tears Juneteenth Book Fest got authors and publishers…
Good morning everyone! I’m just stopping in to write to you all and say I won’t be posting today! We lost power in a storm yesterday afternoon and it still hasn’t come back on yet. I normally schedule my post for the next day at 10 pm, so yeah. Power isn’t scheduled to be back…
