Restorative Reading & Writing for Wellness
Summer reading season is here! Today, I’m talking with Christie Zimmer on the power of journaling to make our lives better….especially our reading lives. We’ve collaborated together to create a colorful printable to help us reflect on our rules for reading, where they...
June is Alzheimer’s and Dementia awareness month. With over 55 million people living with Alzheimer’s and other dementia-related illnesses, many of us are personally impacted by this disease. Today, I’m sharing three books that have been particularly powerful in my own reading life on this topic. But since I have more...
Every month, I share what I’ve been reading, writing, learning and loving in a bonus episode. Today, I’m sharing a list of books you haven’t heard me talk about on the podcast yet, a writing group that’s lighting my writing heart on fire, a fun historical project that involves a notebook...
It’s graduation season! Today, I share a bit of my own graduation regret and offer a collection of fantastic gifts for graduates, Get Lit(erate). style. You’ll find three picture books, three notebooks, three technology gadgets and three bookish gifts just for fun on today’s episode. Here are the books and gifts...
I regularly reflect on my reading statistics generated from my bookish spreadsheet so I can continue to grow as a reader. I just reviewed my updated reading charts and did NOT like what I saw: Today, I share and think through my latest bookish statistics and offer a collection of books...
Writing daily in my various notebooks, especially my Morning Pages notebook, has been a life-changing practice for me, but sometimes, those gleaming white pages can feel daunting. Often, I’ll find myself writing about the same thing over and over again or writing in the same way over and over again. And...
Every May, we explore and celebrate the concept of motherhood: the incredibly loving act of caring for another. And while we may not all be mothers in the traditional sense, we all have experience with our own sense of mothering and what that conjures up for us. Today, I’m sharing three...
I love book birthdays: celebrating the day that new books are released into the world for readers to experience and learn from. Today, we are celebrating the release of Megan Tady’s debut novel titled Super Bloom. I devoured this book and it has a place on many of my personal book...
It’s time for my monthly bonus episode of literate love! Each month, I’ll share what I’ve been reading, writing, learning and loving in hopes that it inspires your own literate life, too. Today, I share the books I’ve read, the writing prompts I’ve tried, the things I’ve learned and the little...
Spring is in the air and that means Spring cleaning, organizing and freshening. Why not bring a bit of that Spring organization to our bookshelves? Today, I am talking about shelf-care: showing love to your bookshelf in mindful and intentional ways to rejuvenate your reading life. Here are the books mentioned...
