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The Merry Month of May

May 1, 2024 By D'Ann Mateer

It’s May, y’all. And you know what that means? Sooooo many gifts to buy! End-of-year- teacher gifts, Mother’s Day, graduations, weddings, babies—all the things. So I thought I’d share with you some of my favorite bookish gifts since, in my opinion, bookish gifts are suitable for all occasions!  Bookish tea towels—great for Mother’s Day, weddings, teachers, or a hostess gift! … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Family, Friendship Tagged With: Baby gift, Baby shower, Bookish Gifts, gifts, hostess gift, Mother's Day, Teacher gift, Wedding gift, Wedding shower

Feeding My Addiction (Old books)

April 17, 2024 By D'Ann Mateer

A couple of weeks ago, a friend of mine sent me these pictures and text message:  My response: And she wasn't even sorry! I had some things to finish first, so it took me about an hour to get out of my house. By the time I got to the sale, someone had purchased two entire bookcases of the books, but there were still many, many titles to go through.  You see, my … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: books, old books, Used Books

Total Solar Eclipse!

April 3, 2024 By D'Ann Mateer

I don’t know what you are doing on Monday, April 8, but North and Central Texas residents are in a frenzy over the coming total solar eclipse. Since the path runs through Dallas-Ft. Worth and down to Austin, many of our small towns (mine included) will be overrun with visitors coming just for this event. I’ve been told there isn’t an empty hotel room or Airbnb for miles around the area. And … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Faith, Nature Tagged With: Psalm 19:1, solar eclipse

My Puzzle Table

March 20, 2024 By D'Ann Mateer

Do you enjoy jigsaw puzzles? I do! But I confess that I rarely indulge in them for three reasons.  Two Christmases ago, both my mom and my husband gave me puzzles for Christmas. I put together the one my mother gave me, which confirmed numbers one through three above! That spring, I was on deadline, so I told myself I would do the lovely Jane Austen’s World puzzle my husband got me as … [Read more...]

Filed Under: House and home Tagged With: jigsaw puzzles

Books I want to re-read

March 6, 2024 By D'Ann Mateer

While cataloging and arranging my home library recently, I ran across several books I haven’t read in a long while. Of course, that’s the majority of them, right? But a few I marked as ones I want to re-read.  But first, why re-read? Because yes, I have sooooo many books waiting to be read for the first time! 1, I re-read for the sake of nostalgia. This happens when I rediscover a book that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, Reading Tagged With: children's classic books, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Frances Parkinson Keyes, Madeleine L'Engle, old books

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