“If you want something you’ve never had, you have to do something you’ve never done.” I feel like I’ve been holding my breath for a year, hardly believing I was getting to study what I love here at Auburn. Someone asked me last Friday how I ended up here and all I could say was,…
Author: Jessica
Savor Endings
Change is hard. Endings are hard. Cliche, obvious statements to make, I know. But that does not make them any less true. Or change any less difficult. Just because something is good does not require that it must also be easy. Changes, goodbyes, endings all make me slightly more introspective and contemplative for a time….
2019 Reading Challenge
2019 Reading Challenge: Bucket List Books I don’t know about you, but no matter how many books I read during the year, my “to-read” list just keeps getting longer and longer. Many of the titles on this list are new additions, but a lot of them have been on there for awhile. I have the…
Book Suggestions: Reluctant Readers
“My 17 year old daughter despises reading, and I’m looking for some good book recommendations that will get her interested. Do you have any series you recommend that would appeal to reluctant readers and help them see that reading can be fun? She loves adventure stories and wants to read books that are “exciting.”” Great question! …
Book Journaling
January. The start of a new year. And the season of planning for the next year. I am fascinated with seeing what people aspire to and challenge themselves with for a new season of life. Predominately I hear two basic categories of goals: physical fitness and reading. I’m not going to count my few runs…
Favorite Books of 2018
This is always an update I am looking forward to writing. I look back at what I read over the past year and the ratings I gave them (if you do not currently track what you have read I highly recommend you begin that in 2019!), and I get to pick My Favorites! I read…
Five Reasons to Pursue Job Shadowing
Many students graduate from high school and head off to college, blissfully pursuing a career. Sadly many students quickly realize they do not truly understand their chosen career. Job shadowing is the little known secret that allows students to get hands on, real life experience in their career of interest. Here are five reasons why…
FBI Task Force (series review)
FBI Task Force series by DiAnn Mills I love this author! As I recently told a friend, DiAnn Mills writes Christian suspense fiction I can trust. Her suspense and mystery will be accurate, but not over the grotesque or horribly violent. Her romance is intriguing and sweet, with heroic men and strong women, but never…
Uncommon Education: A StraighterLine Review
StraighterLine 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Distance learning is a fairly new, but quickly growing, method earning your college education. Obviously CLEP exams and DSST exams are some of the more typical routes for earning distance credit, but the college scene is changing rapidly and there are some new and exciting methods now available. There are typically two walls…
Calico Joe
Calico Joe by John Grisham. This book came across my desk because as required summer reading for Mississippi State (the university Mr. Grisham attended. I’m not attending State, but my brother is, and he arrived home with Calico Joe from orientation. And, because I don’t let words in the house without reading them, added another…