My Thoughts on "Where the Crawdads Sing"

You know that book you pick up thinking it sounds moderately interesting, but once you start reading it, it takes on a life of its own and is infinitely better than anything you could have ever imagined?  That's Where the Crawdads Sing.  This book blew every single one of my expectations out of the water and has quickly become one of my favorite books.  Just...

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Overwhelmed

There's a meme that I see on Facebook every few months that says something to the effect of, "Being an adult means saying to yourself, 'All I have to do is get through this week then everything will be smooth sailing' every week until you die", and that's how I've been feeling so far this week.  The funny thing is, this week isn't any different from other weeks.  In fact, it could be considered somewhat easier than last week because instead...

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My Thoughts On "Everything I Never Told You" and Discussion Questions

Over a year ago, my mom joined a book club, and I was intrigued and interested in joining her, but the members weren't close to my age, and life got in the way.  A few months ago, my mom joined a SECOND book club (because apparently one wasn't enough for her).  Last month, her second book club read one of her favorite books (Before We Were Yours), and she really...

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It's WIP Wednesday!

Let's start with the basics: what in the world is WIP Wednesday?  The short answer is it stands for "Work In Progress Wednesday".  The longer answer is, as always, a bit more complicated than that.  I love to do a variety of different crafts and activities (I focus on scrapbooking, coloring, knitting and cross stitching, along with covering everything I own in vinyl thanks to my Cricut).  I know, it's a lot.  In the past...

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Welcome to Rambling Insights!

I guess the first thing I should come out and say is that I'm incredibly impulsive.  My mom started a blog, and I blogged on and off through college, so I thought I'd copy my mom and give this a shot again.  Honestly, the timing couldn't be better.  Right now, my life is as calm as can be expected for someone who teaches middle school full time and is a part time grad student, but I know some big changes are coming up in the next few...

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