Tag: reading
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The Legacy of Reading
Tiny Heroes and the Gift from Grandma and Grandpa Sheedy Some legacies are built with bricks and mortar. Others are built with bedtime stories, well-loved pages, and the sound of a voice reading by lamplight. Ours? It’s the latter — a legacy lovingly passed down from Grandma and Grandpa Sheedy. Long before there were books…
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From Empty Nest to Full Heart: Writing a Children’s Book
Becoming an empty nester has been a bittersweet chapter in my life. The quiet that once seemed like a luxury suddenly felt like a void. After years of bustling routines, packing lunches, noisy pizza nights, bath-and-hair wash nights, and bedtime stories, the stillness left behind felt jarring. But in that quiet space, I found something…
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Taking the Leap: Deciding to Publish Our First Children’s Book
For as long as I can remember, stories have lived in my head. Some were inspired by bedtime tales I heard as a child as well as while reading stories to my own six children. Other inspiration came from quiet observations of the world around me—like a squirrel’s frantic dash across a park bench or…
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