Alas, it’s the final day in July…are we all ready for August? Since it’s the final weekday of the month, I’m here today to share my Local Tourist adventures along with Dara from Not In Jersey. Local Tourist: The Month That Was July 2019 Thursday, July 4: My mom, sister, and I went to the […]
Fitness In the Summer We’re about halfway through the summer months and I wanted to talk about Summertime Fitness. It’s easy to get lazy in the summer, especially if you’re not a huge fan of the heat. You either have to wake up super early and move, or find other ways to get in exercise […]
You didn’t think I was finished talking about Bunbury 2019, did you? My sister and I, courtesy of Bunbury, attended the music festival in Cincinnati, OHIO between May 31-June 2. Like most festivals, there is plenty of food and drinks to enjoy so I thought I’d share some of what my sister and I purchased […]
On Saturday, June 1, I treated my dad to an early Father’s Day gift and brought him to see Rob Lowe at the Aronoff Center for the Arts in Cincinnati, OH. Based around Rob Lowe’s memoirs, he decided to create a live show titled Stories I Only Tell My Friends (the name of his first […]
If you’ve been reading my blog for awhile, then you might remember Leave a Mark Auctions. I created these auctions back in the day to benefit the charity First Book. I’ve had auctions over the years, sometimes with the money going to other charities/recipients, but I’ve decided to bring them back indefinitely and all the […]
Welcome to July’s Keep It Together with myself and Alexandra: if you have a post, old or new, that’s about planning/planners, scrapbooks, Project Life, memory keeping in any form, we’d love for you to link up with us below! I don’t have a lot of updates for you this month, so I thought I’d do […]
“All I do is win” – is what you can (possibly) say if you enter these giveaways. I’m celebrating 12 years of blogging this month and August with tons of giveaways and I would love to have you enter. My own Year’s Worth of Books giveaway – 12 books, 1 for each month, and I’ll […]
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (The Play); London, England A Review by Lauren My sister had been to London before, and she knew it was pretty much number one on my places to visit, so she said after I got my Master’s degree, we would plan on going. Around this time, Harry Potter and […]
Black-Eyed Susans by Julia Heaberlin Review by Lauren source: library e-copy; all opinions are my own Official Summary (add to Goodreads): As a sixteen-year-old, Tessa Cartwright was found in a Texas field, barely alive amid a scattering of bones, with only fragments of memory as to how she got there. Ever since, the press has […]
It’s time for Show Us Your Books with Steph and Jana. As always, I share book reviews throughout the month but I love doing this link-up so I can share some mini reviews of things I read, as well as link up with other awesome bloggers to get book recommendations! Join us! Keep This To […]