When I was in high school, I learned the phrase “functional fixedness” which is the inability to see potential beyond an item’s initial purpose. I experienced this when I failed to see the potential (and indeed, the design) behind my new mascara.
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Oh the weather outside was frightful
But Page 158 is so delightful
And since we’ve no place to be
Let us read! Let us read! Let us read!
On June 20th, despite a torrential downpour, more than forty friends and family members came to help me celebrate SOMETHING BETTER’s release day at Page 158 Books in Wake Forest.
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Celebrating 2 years of blogging and the latest additions to the “Things I Didn’t Know I Didn’t Know” list.
Read moreBooks and Beyond 2022 (or How to Read When You Just Can’t Choose a Book)
I spent a lot of time not reading this year. It wasn’t that I didn’t want to, or that the books that crossed my path this year were unreadable. If anything, it was the opposite. This year was filled to the brim with absolutely marvelous books, so much so that I became unable to read a book because to choose one meant that I wasn’t choosing another.
So as I sit here trying to organize my thoughts (and failing, see paragraphs 1&2) about my favorite reads of 2022, my focus keeps shifting to all the ways I consumed books this year beyond reading them.
And thus, I give you, my favorite book-ish experiences of 2022
Read moreThank You
I want to take a moment to say thank YOU. Yes, you. Please know you had an impact on my life, and I am forever grateful. In this season of thanks, I give thanks for you.
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