Welcome to Sparked My Interest: August 2026! I’ve decided to try my hand at expanding my blog to include more than just books. In this type of post, I’ll be sharing articles, podcasts, etc. that sparked my interest. I hope they catch your attention as well! I downloaded the Finch app on my phone [...]

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Welcome to my weekly update for August 16, 2026! My sister visited my husband and me in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan over the past week. I didn’t schedule anything to post while she was here because I knew I would be busy with her. She left for home yesterday but we had a great visit! She fell [...]

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Welcome back to (re)Viewing Last Month: July 2026, my monthly recap of the movies and television series my husband and I have been watching! We took a lot of long weekend trips in July, which means we spent time watching whatever we could find on hotel TVs in the evenings. We watched more movies and [...]

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Welcome to my weekly update for August 2, 2026! This has mostly been another quiet weekend since my husband was on call for emergencies at the hospital again on Saturday. He was off last Monday but it was such a rainy and dreary day that we didn’t do anything. My sister is flying in for a visit [...]

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Welcome to my weekly update for July 26, 2026! It’s been a busy couple of weeks! My birthday was July 18 and my husband’s was July 25. We took a trip to Mackinac Island, Michigan for my weekend. Conditions were not ideal for Mackinac Island with all the wildfire smoke, but luckily it had improved [...]

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Welcome to my weekly update for July 12, 2026! My husband had a four-day weekend for Independence Day so we drove up to International Falls, Minnesota and visited Voyageurs National Park. It’s our 57th national park out of a total of 63! We did a little hiking but this is a park that really needs [...]

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Welcome to my weekly update for July 5, 2026! I hope my fellow Americans had a happy 4th of July, and the rest of you had a good weekend, however you chose to spend it! My husband and I took a little day trip last Sunday to explore some smaller sights we hadn’t seen yet here in the Upper Peninsula [...]

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Welcome back to (re)Viewing Last Month: June 2026, my monthly recap of the movies and television series my husband and I have been watching! Works appear in the the order in which we finished them [...]

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Welcome to my weekly update for June 28, 2026! My husband was on call for emergencies at the hospital all last weekend so we didn’t do anything. It was nice for me to have a weekend to relax though. I like to share some of our pictures with you though so there are a couple below. The sunset [...]

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Welcome to my weekly update for June 21, 2026! My husband had a long weekend off work last weekend so we decided to visit Isle Royale National Park (Pronounced like plain old royal; nothing fancy here). It’s one of the least visited national parks in the lower 48 states because it’s so [...]

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