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Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian I typically do not like thrillers that use things like mental illness or psychopathy as a plot line, however, this author is a psychologist, which made it not only accurate, but insanely interesting to me. This was a slow burn with a creepy build up that I loooooved. There […]

Book Reviews

My First 11 Books of 2022 (And Whether or Not You Should Read Them)

Jack,  Happy sixth birthday (over a month late, because, life) my little love.  I say this every year, but you are absolutely everything. You are everything good in this world. You are everything right. I have no freaking idea what I did to get lucky enough for you to be mine, but I will spend […]

Mom Life

Letters to Jack: SIX.

Whew, the first Monday of a new year always hits hard. It’s now Tuesday but whatever, same sentiment. I am on my third (fourth? fifth? I don’t wanna talk about it) cup of coffee of the day and just coming up from my inbox for air. It’s scary in there. Jack’s a little under the weather, […]

Coffee Dates

Live Blog: The First of 2022.

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