Media From the Heart by Ruth Hill

I know I am somewhat behind in posting these reviews.  Next month, I’ll have to take inventory and see how close I am getting to my goal. I listened to James Blunt’s first CD, All the Lost Souls.  I think the first James Blunt song I heard was You’re Beautiful.  I did not know who he was, but I knew I liked […]

This has been a very successful weekend for me.  I can see the floor of my bedroom for the first time in weeks!  At this point, I do not plan on rejoining the 52-week organizing challenge, but I do plan to set some goals for myself as the summer comes. This site is back in my life again.  I examined […]

The good news is that I did lose around a pound this week.  So it is working.  Slowly, but surely.  I highly recommend all the recipes from last week.  They were easy and tasted good.  I still have the first chicken meal to make, but that will be made tomorrow night. For this week, I am planning recipes from the […]

Yes, we here use blogger know the issues that arose yesterday–it was kind of maddening.  Now, I could say to switch right now, but I also know that every site has its share of trouble.  I have seen many blogging sites down for various reasons here and there.  But I certainly missed my blog and many other blogs during the […]

Summary from Goodreads: Christian Encounters, a series of biographies from Thomas Nelson Publishers, highlights important lives from all ages and areas of the Church. Some are familiar faces. Others are unexpected guests. But all, through their relationships, struggles, prayers, and desires, uniquely illuminate our shared experience. Johann Sebastian Bach is generally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all […]

Summary from Goodreads: A mother’s tragedy, a daughter’s desire and the 7000 mile journey that changed their lives. In 1896 Norwegian American Helga Estby accepted a wager from the fashion industry to walk from Spokane, Washington to New York City within seven months in an effort to earn $10,000. Bringing along her nineteen year-old daughter Clara, the two made their […]

Synopsis from Goodreads:  A ne’er-do-well exploits his gentle daughter’s beauty for social advancement in this masterpiece of tragic fiction. Hardy’s 1891 novel defied convention to focus on the rural lower class for a frank treatment of sexuality and religion. Then and now, his sympathetic portrait of a victim of Victorian hypocrisy offers compelling reading. Tess of the D’Ubervilles by Thomas […]

ABOUT THE BOOK Have you ever admired those successful people who seem to “have it all?” You see them chatting confidently at business meetings, and comfortably at social parties. They’re the ones with the best jobs, the nicest spouses, the finest friends, the biggest bank accounts, the most fashionable zip codes. But wait a minute! A lot of them aren’t […]

Summary from goodreads: SLOW: Life in a Tuscan Town is an unprecedented photographic personal journey into the heart of hidden Tuscany that celebrates the principles that define the Slow Food movement and pays tribute to the region’s kaleidoscope of vibrant characters, whose shared culture revolves around the everyday pleasure of growing, preparing, and eating food. With an anecdotal charm reminiscent of […]

Summary from goodreads: Henry Graves has dedicated his life to the prison service, but he is unprepared for the challenge his new and secret assignment brings. Tasked with managing a government facility hidden deep in the countryside, Henry finds himself tested as never before: by the confused and frightened prisoners, by the sinister Dr Silk and, above all, by his […]