by Summer D Clemenson | May 2, 2024 | Opinions, Prayers & Thanksgiving
College is a time when we are supposed to learn to think. We often learn more about ourselves and figure out where we stand politically. For many of us, it is the first time we see ourselves separately from our families enough to be able to decide where we stand on a...
by Summer D Clemenson | May 1, 2024 | Book & Product Reviews, Opinions
I have always enjoyed Matthew McConaughey in movies and interviews. I have always been able to see that he is authentic and wise. Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey is a autobiography that showcases how he has gotten to be that way. He is honest with himself and with...
by Summer D Clemenson | Apr 29, 2024 | About Summer, Poetry
I am not afraid of the Spirit within me I am not afraid of my emotions or memories that cause physical sensations deep in my muscles that remind me where I have been and how far I have come But I am afraid you will never see or hear who I really am ~ You offered me a...
by Summer D Clemenson | Apr 26, 2024 | Book & Product Reviews, Opinions
I just finished a biography about a woman scientist and I loved it. I was never good at science. But Finding the Mother Tree Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard kept me engaged. I think it is because she loves the trees so much. She was taught to...
by Summer D Clemenson | Apr 25, 2024 | About Summer, Cancer, Opinions
I am so tired and I know God is carrying me. Most of the time my prayers are: God please help. Not only for myself but when I see what is going on in the world. I am not the only one that is overwhelmed. It is hard to think about the wars in the world and the children...
by Summer D Clemenson | Apr 23, 2024 | About Summer, Opinions
I knew Xavier was sick and would probably need to go to Jesus when we took him to see Dr Katie yesterday. I had known it was different this time. His IBS flares usually only lasted a week but no more. He never stopped eating longer than a day or two. I heard myself...
by Summer D Clemenson | Apr 22, 2024 | Book & Product Reviews, Opinions
Happy April! I have been enjoying working on rebuilding my children’s book collection so for the next few months we will be exploring some of my own books. I have really loved going through my favorite books and remembering reading them to the children I have loved....
by Summer D Clemenson | Apr 18, 2024 | Local Interests, Opinions, Prayers & Thanksgiving
Most of you know my sister,Jamie Holloway. I mention her all the time. She is my best friend and my adopted sister. She is a huge inspiration to me and so many other people because of her strength and her drive to live as well as she can with some pretty scary chronic...
by Summer D Clemenson | Apr 3, 2024 | Book & Product Reviews, Opinions
Hungry Ghosts by Kevin Jared Hosein is a literary fiction book that takes place in Trinidad in the 1940’s. Hosein takes the first few chapters of this novel to help you realize the vast difference between the classes of people, especially our main characters. Hans and...
by Summer D Clemenson | Apr 2, 2024 | Book & Product Reviews, Opinions
I do know that I am at least 3 days late with this article but I do believe that wonderful things can happen in only 3 days…which is why so many people celebrate Resurrection Sunday. In reality my family was really busy in the month of March which is why I am late but...
by Summer D Clemenson | Mar 22, 2024 | Book & Product Reviews, Opinions
I had seen previews for the movie Killers of the Flower Moon and meant to see it and then forgot about it. Then one night I saw Martin Scorsese on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and really enjoyed his interview and I was reminded that I wanted to make time to see...
by Summer D Clemenson | Mar 15, 2024 | Opinions, Prayers & Thanksgiving
According to the Cambridge Dictionary, the word, transactional, is an adjective that describes something that is related to buying and selling. For instance, transactional charges are fees that are associated with their purchase. Transactional can also be associated...
by Summer D Clemenson | Mar 6, 2024 | Opinions, Prayers & Thanksgiving
A couple of weeks ago I was inspired to write my editorial article: I Do Not Believe The United States Should Label Itself a Christian Nation. After sharing it with my wife, who has similar, but different beliefs than I do, I realized that maybe I should go deeper to...
by Summer D Clemenson | Mar 4, 2024 | Cancer, Opinions, Prayers & Thanksgiving
February was a hard month but it wasn’t without blessings and I feel so blessed! As many of you know since October 2021 I have been dealing with the fact that I Have Cancer. It has been a long road with much self-searching, changes in diet and lifestyle and even in...
by Summer D Clemenson | Feb 29, 2024 | Book & Product Reviews, Opinions
At 3 years old, the main character, Pik-Shuen, immigrated from China to Canada. She was with her mother and grandparents; her father stayed back in Hong Kong to keep working. They were very poor and they adults worked a lot but the short stories shared talk about...
by Summer D Clemenson | Feb 28, 2024 | Book & Product Reviews, Opinions
I have been working through a bag of books that I am supposed to pass onto Jamie’s sister, Joy, and I am almost through them all. In fact, now that I have finished The Invasion of Heaven by Michael B. Koep, I only have one more book to go. I was really surprised that...
by Summer D Clemenson | Feb 27, 2024 | Book & Product Reviews, Opinions
I was really blessed to come from a family that loved books. My mother, my aunt and mostly my nana really instilled my love for books into me. Nana could tell the best stories, whether she was telling me about my ancestors or she was reading a story from a book or she...
by Summer D Clemenson | Feb 26, 2024 | About Summer, Opinions
On the day after I had surgery I got an email from PayPal that my transaction with Facebook had gone through. I was on pain killers and supposed to be resting but I did not purchase any ads subscriptions with Facebook or Meta and I was angry. I had been having trouble...
by Summer D Clemenson | Feb 23, 2024 | Opinions, Prayers & Thanksgiving
I started a new notebook yesterday. I don’t use anything fancy, just a composition book that I can get for about $.50. I don’t keep them. I don’t re-read them or go through them once I have finished them. But I use them to write down my thoughts with my bible...
by Summer D Clemenson | Feb 20, 2024 | Book & Product Reviews, Opinions
Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro begins on August 27, 1985, when three teenagers get into a car and make choices that change all their lives and the lives of their families forever. Sarah and Theo Wilf live but their parents never really talk about what happened and it...
by Summer D Clemenson | Feb 19, 2024 | Opinions, Prayers & Thanksgiving
I love God and I am thankful that He chose me and I can call myself a Christian. I am also thankful that I was born in The United States because I have freedoms that I would not have in other countries. I appreciate that I live in a country founded on the belief of...
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