Bluebird Books

Subscription boxes are a thing, and I have purchased my fair share.  I love Page 1 , Book of the Month , and Fab Fit Fun .  But my favorite is my Scribbler box . I'm a writer and if you are too, you need to stop and consider this box.  It has improved my writing life and kept me writing even when I was too busy/stressed/emotional/just plain didn't want to do it this spring.   The other day I was avoiding my writing time and then my kids ran in with with the scribbler box.  I opened it slowly.  So often I rush through the good things in my life--a passing glance at a beautiful sunset, a quick moment of gratitude in the garden that gets interrupted by someone asking me for something, and the joy of opening a package addressed to me.   I was not going to let that happen.   Another thing that makes the scribbler box so great is that you don't know what's inside.  It's rare for me to get a box in the mail without prior knowledge of its contents.  And

Today is the first official day of summer for my kids and I am here for it.   I survived the concerts, picnics, and finals and I'm ready for my reward now.   Some might say I sound sarcastic, but I am so excited to have the kids home.  Don't get me wrong, my quiet time won't be so quiet anymore and there will be plenty of activities to drive them to (swim team, I'm looking at you), but I couldn't force another person to do more homework or wake up before 6:30 if my life depended on it.   One of the many things I love about summer is that my reading time increases.  There are times I get interrupted, but mostly they leave me alone when they see I am reading.  I have trained them to know books are good for mom and happy mom = happy kids.  Plus, summer is the time we do our mother-daughter book club which means they are often reading the same book and looking forward to a girls' night out to celebrate all of us finishing.   The free places we

It's a rare occurrence that I do not finish (DNF) a book.  But it happens. Recently, I put down one of the most hyped books of the year.  And I have feelings about this. Unless you're living under a rock, you've probably heard about the book: Daisy Jones and the Six .  It's exciting!  Sex!  Drugs!  Rock-n-Roll! Told in an oral history format!  The cover is great! I was excited to pick this for my Book of the Month subscription a couple of months ago.  Often, I get my BOTM box and set the new book in a stack of other books and move on with my day.  But this one was different. So many people were raving about it on podcasts and Reese Witherspoon had picked it for her book club.  I didn't want to wait, I opened the box and ran to my favorite chair to start reading. As I was reading, a friend texted me and asked what I thought.  She hadn't been able to get into it and she wondered if she had missed something.  I kept reading. I felt such a swell o