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Are We There Yet?
In 1903, Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson made the first cross-country trip across the United States in an automobile. I wrote about this Road Trip Pioneer in 2020. In 2025, Stacy McAnulty published Are We There Yet, The First Road Trip Across the USA, a delightful picture book (illustrated by Elizabeth Baddeley) depicting this journey. As…
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Who Were the Hello Girls? All About WWI’s Switchboard Soldiers
I have read multiple books about the women, known as the Hello Girls, who served as telephone switchboard operators in the US Army during World War I. I am enamored of their story and yet cannot seem to find the words to talk about them and explain why exactly this story has such a hold…
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What We Read This Summer – No Chapter Left Behind Book Club
This summer brought sunshine, fireworks, and a few dog-eared pages as we soaked up every bit of summer reading. In June, we kicked off the season with beach reads, road trip adventures, and stories set by the Water, celebrating everything that makes summer sparkle. July turned up the heat with red, white & blue covers,…
20 Days of Me Series
The 3 latest installments of the series-
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Nightmares and Never-Ending Stories
“To sleep, perchance to dream.” – Hamlet/William Shakespeare So apparently, Hamlet is speaking about death rather than actually sleeping and dreaming but it seemed like a fun way to intro this latest installment of 20 Days of Me. I’m not sure what this says about me but my dreams generally fall into one main category…
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Snack Time!
Day 10 of the 20 Days of Me… We’re halfway through the series and I don’t know about you, but I’m getting kind of hungry. Let’s have a snack! Favorite Snacks This is a tough one to answer. I like snacks. Lots of different kinds at different times of my life. So let’s do a…
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Stickshifts and Safetybelts
It’s time for 20 Days of Me again!! Today is all about my first car. Let’s zoom on in, shall we? Initially I was thinking only about the first car that I bought myself but then I realized that the family cars I drove before that also held a lot of memories and I just…
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