Bring On Lemons

  Cathy Hansen is a mother and small business owner from the Midwest. She wrote me after reading the first chapter of Robert Hoffman's book "Blind Spot" - and said she was hooked and couldn't wait to find out how things played out. She knew from the very beginning she was going to love this week and I'm excited to share her entire review with all of you today! xoxox Crystal - the Big Lemon Herself!!! But before we hear more from Cathy, a bit more from the author himself about Blind Spot : In this comedy/drama, based very, very loosely on my own experiences, a middle-aged father of three named Doug Kaplan appears to have it all. An attractive and supportive wife, three healthy boys, and a successful career.  He doesn’t shy away from his responsibilities as a father or as a son to his aging parents, and he is valued and respected at work.  However, all his life he has been plagued by the accusation that he does suffer from one significant character flaw, a subtle ...

  We are excited to be here today with H.R. Conklin and participate in the book blog tour of Book #4 in the Celtic Magic Series, The Eternity Knot.  Find out what Wisconsin Educator, Entrepreneur, and Mother has to say about this delightful book!  First, here is a little bit about  The Eternity Knot : Mairi has been shown the future and knows humans must change their ways. Continuing on their path of disconnect with Nature will cause the destruction of human life. Tasked by the Seelie Fae to save the human world, Mairi and friends seek out ancient wisdom in the stories of old. The Queen of the Unseelie Fae decides humans have to prove themselves worthy of the Earthly Realm, or die trying. Dark magic makes Mairi push harder to find the answers she needs, but the Undersea Faerie Queen is weighing in and Mairi is uncertain whose side she is on. When young people representing cultures from all of the continents share their knowledge, Mairi finally feels the seeds ...

We are privileged to have back with us - Shirley Melis and her memoir Banged-Up Heart . Readers and listeners of this book have had so many wonderful things to say about this inspiring story and now it's available on  Audible  ! Banged-Up Heart: Dancing with Love and Loss  is an intimate and clear-eyed account of finding love late and losing it early—and of the strength it takes to fall deeply in love a second time, be forced to relinquish that love too soon, and yet choose to love again. When her husband of thirty years dies suddenly, Shirley Melis is convinced she will never find another man like Joe. Then she meets John, a younger man who tells her during their first conversation that he has lived for many years with a rare but manageable cancer. She is swept off her feet in a whirlwind courtship, and within months, made brave by the early death of a friend’s husband, she asks him to marry her! What follows is a year-long odyssey of travel and a growing erotic a...

About the Book: Laura, who died thirty years ago, enlists the help of a tenacious high school reporter named Rebecca, who is very much alive. Rebecca, although skeptical and conflicted by her supposed encounters with a spirit, determines to learn the truth about Laura’s tragic death. As the clues unravel and their worlds collide, Rebecca finds herself at a dangerous crossroads. Laura, now pulled back into everything she left behind when she died—her old high school and memories of her life and death—has been in training for this exact moment. And nothing means more to her than succeeding at her assignment. It is her one chance to make sure that what happened to her does not happen to anyone else, and especially not to her new friend, Rebecca. Paperback: 296 pages Genre: Fiction/Young Adult Novel Publisher: WiDO (March 2018) ISBN-10: 1937178994 ISBN-13: 978-1937178994 Crossing the Line is available for purchase in print and as an ebook at Amazon , Barnes & Noble , a...

Thank you to WOW! Women on Writing for allowing us to participate in this tour! Today's Reviewer: Cathy Hansen is a wife, mom, teacher, independent http://seedsnbeans.blogspot.com/ beauty consultant, and small business owner. She and her husband operate SeedsNBeans, a local nature store, in Two Rivers, Wisconsin. Cathy Writes: Anyone who has ever loved a pet will enjoy There’s a Hamster in the Dashboard by David W. Berner. A cute collection of essays about various pets the author has owned, the book reminded me of pets I’ve owned, and led me to ponder the lessons they’ve taught me, as well as the lessons my children are learning from our pets. Berner’s tales of a crazy cat, a hamster named Tony that unexpectedly had babies, a pet lizard, a spider captured and studied for a few days, a dog who got him in trouble on his paper route, and others reminded me of some of my own family’s experiences with pets. There was the cat who only returned home when he smelled fres...

Live your life—don’t fear it!  This is the moral of   Afraid of Everything  by Karen Jones Gowen.   Gowen brought me into the frustrating world of  anxiety disorder with her detailed description of Helena’s thought process.  The opening chapters of the book vividly describe a level of anxiety that left me amazed that Helena Carr ever held a position as a labor nurse in a hospital, and even more shocked that she’d even want to attempt to return after a major crisis that nearly cost a patient her life.  Every single act, every decision Helena makes is controlled by her anxiety and concern.   Should she call the realtor?  Should she see the therapist?  Should she attend her neighbors’ backyard party?  Should she call her father?  Should she continue to see the therapist?  Should she have gone to see her mother sooner?  Should she sell her house?  Should she go visit her daughter?  Should she move to Gua...