By Danielle Richard Climate. Crisis. Two words that instantly conjure a gut reaction. Everyone feels differently, but they all feel strongly about a topic that is becoming more and more fraught with scary statistics, shameful destruction, and a looming sense of hopelessness. As someone who …
#1 New York Times bestselling author and host of the podcast Revisionist History Malcolm Gladwell, Read by the author Malcolm Gladwell’s “Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know” was released in audiobook format in September of 2019 and I …
How audiobooks save our sanity on the road… It was, of course, a family obligation that took me to New Orleans one weekend a few years ago. I was the lone adult, with both kids in tow. Faced with an hours-long drive both to and …
One hot Fall afternoon in the mid 1980s, a small but mighty 6-year-old twirled into her very first class at Miss Tommie’s School of Dance. Her new leather ballet shoes softly padded on the cool linoleum floor in the open studio building. Within those walls, …
Educated, a memoir by Tara Westover, details her unusual upbringing and the monumental journey to a new life, leaving the bizarre world of her youth behind. Westover takes the reader along as she describes her life growing up with her fundamentalist parents in the rural …
Because I knew so little about our former First Lady, I was really looking forward to reading her autobiography. During the time she and President Obama were campaigning and actually living in the White House, I was up to my eyeballs with a newborn and …
While I don’t often stray far from my home on my chosen little neighborhood street corner in a very comfortable and familiar part of Northwest Louisiana, I am always up for learning new things about different parts of the world. It’s fascinating to learn parishes, …
I first stumbled upon Deborah Reber’s podcast series, “Tilt Parenting,” from a recommendation deep within a comment thread, deep within a Facebook group. This was one of many Facebook groups I had recently joined, searching for parents with whom I could relate. But THIS nugget …
