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Alley Kids: Riding Bikes

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To this day, I ride up hills effortlessly on my bike. Not that I go looking for hills, mind you. On the contrary–I often add miles to my journey to avoid riding up steep hills. A so-called no sweat route. But I grew up on Westnedge Hill. You didn’t leave my house without going down [...]

The Little Engine that Could

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While I’m over here building castles in the sky about etsy, hats, booties and shops, my kindle books are quietly selling. Last night I listed book two of my Recipe for Reading series. The idea behind Recipe for Reading is a cookbook style collection of reading games I’ve road tested with my family. Book 1 [...]

Summer Reading Results

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Forgive me if the blog is starting to read like a ‘what I did this summer essay.’ I’m playing catch up after 2 months off of blogging. I know it’s kind of a brain dump, but it’ll take a minute before I’m all dumped emptied out. So, from the list I posted on July 8th, [...]