Soli Deo Gloria

     Hey, y'all!! Today's post is gonna be a short one (mainly 'cause I was busy, procrastinated, what have you and just wrote this yesterday), but I'll make up for it next week! 😉 Either way, DON'T GO AWAY because I have some SUPER important news!!! First off, the lovely authoress Grace A. Johnson (you can find her blog  HERE ) is releasing a 9/11 short story called Daylight  in honor of the 20th anniversary of...well, 9/11.      So mark your calendars for September 11, 2021 for the release of this brand new exciting short story!        Secondly, for some...not-so-epic-news, as I said, my next post will hopefully be next week, but if you're subscribed to my blog you won't be getting an email notification since the Blogger subscription platform, Feedburner, is changing. I'm looking for some other options on how to send email notifications out (and hopefully I'll find one soon) but for now, if I don't find one before next week,...

    HEELLLOOO, my good and loyal subjects!!! Grab a comfy seat that you're probably already sitting in and prepare yourselves for a SUPERLY EPIC, ONE OF A KIND, post today!!!! But is this a normal post? Oh no, it is not. *waves fingers mysteriously* For today, you will be reading a guest post by THE ONE AND ONLY Issabelle from Teen Writers' Nook !!!! (I'm pretty sure most of you read or have heard of TWN, but if you haven't checked it out, you TOTALLY should!! *shoves the link in your face and uses the Force to make you click it*) XP     However, before I let her take over, I'm gonna brag about mah girl for a minute and say that if you don't have Issabelle in your life then you are SERIOUSLY missing out!!! She's one of the best friends a crazy ole girl like me could have! Issabelle is encouraging, thoughtful, supportive, and a TOTALLY EPIC WRITER and I've truly been blessed beyond my years to get to know her! Plus, you know you have a real friend when sh...

     Guess what time it iiissss!!!! If you said it's time for another book review, then you are correct!       And THIS BOOK. *clutches heart* Guys, I know my last book review kind of turned into a persuasive essay situation, and I'm sorry, but this one might too. (Don't worry, I'll try to be more professionally review-ish with my next one.) 😉     So this book, as you can see, is the BELOVED, CARNEGIE-MEDAL WINNER, Ruby Holler (by Sharon Creech)!!!     I first read this baby when I was in a book club with another family a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away... It 'twas then, when I discovered a book I could NEVER, EVER get tired of and thus became one of my favorite comfort novels ever!       So what are we waiting for? Let's get this party started!!! 😃😃😃     SUMMARY (This is actually from Goodreads if you wanna check the book out there and add it to your TBR  😇😜):     Ruby H...

     Hello again, my little minions! Today you and I will time travel. (YES. You heard me right.)       A while back, Maith from her TOTALLY EPIC blog, Maith's Musings , I order you to click the link  tagged me for the TOTALLY EPIC "Twenty Years Older: A Letter Tag" tag!!! Yeah...I didn't really know how to phrase that right. XD This basically means that I have to pretend to be my future self writing a letter to my past/present self and ultimately murder my brain from the inevitable confusion.      Sounds fun, amiright?      Here are the rules (Also,  Gauri from  Brighter Alleys  invented this awesome tag if you wanna go back and read the original post!):      i) Appreciate the blogger who nominated you.       ii) Mention  Gauri@BrighterAlleys , creator of this letter tag.       iii) Answer the question, which is a task to write a letter....

       I...don't really know who Harvey Mackay is. I googled him and apparently he's this businessman/columnist/author person, but the thing that stuck out to me about him the most was this quote he said on his Facebook page several years ago. (You can read it above.) 😉The reason why this quote impacted me so much was because it's true. Time really is precious and once it's lost you can't ever get it back again.        I feel like in today's culture, many of us (including myself) waste time and don't use it for God. Instead, we often think about what we have to do in this amount of time, by that hour, or before those deadlines. And this isn't completely a bad thing. It's life and God gave us things to do to live out the time we have on this earth. (Or else, the word "boring" would get a whole new definition!) 😉However, it does become a bad thing when we get so caught up in our schedules and push God out of our lives, not finding enough t...

    You know that feeling when you want something SOOOOOO bad and it takes forever to convince your parents to let you have or do that? Well that was for me with archery.     And it took me a year to persuade them to let me try it out.      It all started in the Fall of 2019 with the famous Katniss Everdeen. Wait, wait. Nope, it was even farther back. It REALLY all started a several years ago with a good ol' episode of LEGO Friends . (Not that I expect anyone to recognize that show--I barely even remember the name of it myself.) XD BUT ANYWAY. I think I was 10 or 11 at the time, and I remember watching one episode where Olivia and her friends went to a summer camp.      And they did archery.     And I was jealous.      Of them. I was jealous of ANIMATED LEGO PEOPLE WHO WENT TO A MAKE BELIVE SUMMER CAMP.  The pure absurdity of it is *slightly* humiliating. But eventually, my 11 year old Dory brain completely ...