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March 6, 2025
Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot! Come Link Up With Us!
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 them. Look for the …
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Winter of Fairbanks Jr.: The Sun Never Sets (1939)
This winter I watched Douglas Fairbanks Jr. movies for fun. This week for the last movie of the series, I watched The Sun Never Sets (1939) starring Douglas, Basil Rathbone, Barbara O’Neil and Virginia Fields. It was directed by Rowland Lee. Before I launch into my feelings about the movie, here is the plot, without …
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March 5, 2025
Hodge Podge: A bit about March, celery, and historical farm shows
I decided to join up with Joyce this week for the Hodge Podge, a feature I like to do but haven’t done in a long time. March has never really stood out to me as a month I like for any reason other than I know it will lead us out of winter and toward …
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Currently March: What am I loving, craving, pinning, planning, and appreciating
Today I am joining up with Jen from My Joyful Life for the Currently post. For March, Jen is asking what we are loving, craving, pinning, planning, and appreciating. This month I am loving that the temperatures are getting warmer, slowly, but surely. I am not a fan of hot weather but I am also …
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March 4, 2025
Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Notable Quotes from Fictional Book Characters
|| Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. || Today’s prompt is: things Characters Have Said (Maybe a character said something really profound or romantic or hilarious or heartbreaking. You could share witty one-liners, mic-drop moments, snippets of funny dialogue between multiple characters, catchphrases, quotes that have become a part of pop culture–like …
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March 1, 2025
Sunday Bookends: Finally an outing and finished a couple of books (also finally)
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. Saturday, the family and I got out of the house for an outing for the first time …
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February 28, 2025
Fiction Friday: Gladwynn Grant Gets Her Footing Chapters 9 and 10
Welcome to a serial fiction series of my book Gladwynn Grant Gets Her Footing, a light cozy mystery. You will be able to read chapters of this book each Friday. You can also find a list of chapters HERE. If you don’t want to wait for the next installment or click through each chapter, and would …
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February 27, 2025
Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot: Come Join Us!
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Winter of Fairbanks Jr.: The Rise of Catherine The Great (1934)
This winter I am watching movies starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. This week I watched The Rise of Catherine The Great from 1934. The movie was also just called Catherine The Great at one point. I watched it on YouTube and the reproduction of it wasn’t really very good at some points. This movie, which takes …
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February 25, 2025
Top Ten Tuesday: Books Set In Another Time
|| Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. || Today’s prompt was: Books Set in Another Time (These can be historical, futuristic, alternate universes, or even in a world where you’re not sure when it takes place you just know it’s not right now.) This prompt wasn’t difficult this week because most of …
