Author: Christy

After graduating from Eupora High School, I attended Mississippi State University where I majored in Social Studies Education. In 2004, I completed my Master of Education from Belhaven University and became National Board Certified in 2005. In May 2020, I completed my Ed.S. in Educational Leadership from Belhaven University. I am beginning my 23rd year of teaching. In my spare time, I love to garden, read, and take care of my ducks and chickens and now bees!

The Secrets We Kept: A Novel by Lara Prescott and chocolate chip pancakes

  In all honesty, I just wanted to share the best homemade pancake recipe.  This recipe is from the Bell’s Best cookbook.  This is an […]

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Scythe by Neal Shusterman and Smallcakes, a new Gluckstadt business

  When you read a dystopian novel, you promote a local, recently-opened business…or I do anyway. 🧁😊  Smallcakes is a new cupcakery that opened up […]

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The Woman in the Window: A Novel and King Cake in a Bread Machine

  Recipe link I know what you are saying?  King Cake in a bread machine?  Why, yes!  And…king cake also doesn’t have anything to do […]

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Home Before Dark by Riley Sager : article – Thomas Jefferson/Dr. Benjamin Rush, maple sugar, and the abolition of slavery

  The setting of this book takes place in Vermont. It is a struggle to find unique recipes of books with settings in the United […]

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The Death of Mrs Westaway and Orange Doughnut Bites (from Poldark Cookbook)

  Poldark.  Need I say more!  I have been waiting for Amazon to release the last season to no avail!!!!  I came across this cookbook, […]

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Trials of the Earth – Part 3: Homeward Bound

  Last year, I read a rather fascinating read about a pioneering family that settled in the Mississippi Delta (in Mississippi – not Arkansas).  Here […]

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