Jane H. Green Blog
What If You Were Told You Only Have Five Years Left To Live On Earth?
What IF — you were told you only have five years left to live on earth? What would you change? What would you do differently in the next hour... next day next week next year? A very wise man shared with us in Sunday school this week. We call him our General... a...
The Garden Life
The garden life— One of my favorite YouTubers uses that term a lot. Her channel is all about gardening inside and outside our homes and making relaxing spaces. You can check her channel out by googling Linda Vater. I'm understanding that term more and more as I...
Miss Hickory: Remembering Great Books From Childhood
Miss Hickory, by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey, was a Newbery Award winner copyrighted in 1946. As a young girl in the 1960's I don't remember how I came upon this book in our school library, but somehow I found it and read it alone in the quiet of my bedroom. I remember...
A Deep Dive Into Historical Fiction: Island of the Blue Dolphins
I re-read Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell this week. Copyrighted in 1960, it was a Newbery Award winning classic. The fictional summary of the story is... Karana, an Indian girl, lives with her father, sister, and younger brother on a remote island in...