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April 29, 2025
Nancy Drew is 95 today! History, creation, lasting influence, controversy and more.
Nancy Drew is 95 years old as of April 28, 2025!! She’s looking pretty good for someone her age, isn’t she? The first Nancy Drew book, The Secret of the Old Clock, was released on April 28, 1930. Two more books, The Hidden Staircase and The Bungalow Mystery. Since then, there have been millions of …
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April 27, 2025
Sunday Bookends: My 10-year-old’s opinion of the 1982 Annie, some dirt road traveling, and drop in crafternoons continue
It’s time for our Sunday morning chat. On Sundays, I ramble about what’s been going on, what the rest of the family and I have been reading and watching, and what I’ve been writing. Some weeks I share what I am listening to. The kids helped some friends of the family clean up their yard last week and while they …
April 26, 2025
Saturday Afternoon Chat: A drive in the country and adding a blog roll to my blog
Good afternoon! Welcome to the blog for a Saturday Afternoon Chat, where I look back at my week that was. Most of the time my weeks are not very exciting so don’t expect too much. Would you care for a beverage while we chat? I have a variety of tea – peppermint, chamomile, raspberry, and …
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April 24, 2025
Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot
Welcome to the Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot where we offer a place for bloggers to link up and get a fresh set of eyes on their posts. We also feature one blog a week, letting our readers know about the blog, and providing a link so readers can learn more about it. Look for the …
Springtime in Paris: Hugo
Erin from Still Life, With Cracker Crumbs and I have been watching movies that take place in Paris this spring. Up this week was the movie Hugo. I had vaguely heard of this one before, but really didn’t know what it was about until Erin suggested it. I don’t know how I didn’t know more …
April 21, 2025
Recapping and reviewing the 1977 Hardy Boys Nancy Drew Mysteries episode The Secret of the Whispering Walls
Here we are to another episode from The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries show from 1977. As I’ve mentioned before, in the first season of this series the episodes switched back and forth from Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew episodes and in the next season they started to join together. This week we have another Nancy …
April 20, 2025
Easter Morn
A poem from my brother about our grandfather. For National Poetry Month, I’m sharing poems each day, one that I’ve written followed by whatever one from three sites that share a poem a day that … Easter Morn
Sunday Bookends: He is Risen! And I feel like the books I am reading are very long.
It’s time for our Sunday morning chat. On Sundays, I ramble about what’s been going on, what the rest of the family and I have been reading and watching, and what I’ve been writing. Some weeks I share what I am listening to. First things first – He has risen! He has risen indeed! Happy Easter! Remember when I was …
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April 19, 2025
Saturday Afternoon Chat: Reading on the front porch
Last night I was sitting out on the porch, reading The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien, enjoying the warmer weather. I looked out at our front yard and yes, our old maple tree is missing, but it doesn’t feel as weird as it did the first few days after it was gone. One night this …
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April 17, 2025
Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot April 18 Come Link Up With Us!
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