Poor Late Bloomers

I am a lover of magazines. I currently subscribe to a few: Reader's Digest, Relevant, Christian Research Journal (apologetics), and Radiant and read them cover-to-cover. Relevant and Radiant are sister magazines, born from the same press, only Radiant is the "female" version and Relevant is pretty gender neutral. I just started subscribing to Radiant in the Fall, and since it is a newer publication, it is only a quarterly magazine. I got my Fall 2007 issue and never my "Winter" one...I expected it would come in January with the new year. As I opened up my Relevant mag (which I got about a week ago) and turned to the letter from the editor, he (Strang) said they discontinued Radiant because there wasn't enough subscriptions to pay for itself, although they are continuing the website (great articles and blogs, updated every few days: http://www.radiantmag.com/). I was SO disappointed--I had ordered all the back issues (only 5!) for myself to read over Christmas and read them in a week. It was quickly becoming my favorite magazine! How am I always the last to know about these things? This certainly isn't the first time this situation has happened. I was an avid reader of Violet Magazine, back in 2005-6, but it was also a quarterly that couldn't be upheld by investors who pulled out. The magazine was edited/created by Charles Mingus' daughter, Keiki Mingus! It had success written all over it. It was the best designed magazine I have ever seen, and had awesome articles oriented at Environment, Women's Issues, Family, and Knick Knack/Misc. It was packed at over 100 pages a copy and the photography was AMAZING! I am so sorry for these two magazines that they could never get off the ground...here's looking at you, kids:

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Home School Activities: Board Games We Love

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Birch Bay Sunset, rainbow hues July has been hot out here. When you live in the top story of an apartment building, and there's no air conditioning, it can feel just over the needle of uncomfortably warm when the day is above 76 degrees. We've kept blinds shut, windows open, and a fan continually blowing as it's perched in our living room window well. Just about the only thing I feel like doing after a long day is laying on the couch straight in the fan's air circulation path, and read a good book. I had some unique picks this month. * #GIRLBOSS by Sophia Amoruso This book was just plain fun to read. Amoruso developed the iconic ebay store NastyGal way back when vintage selling on ebay was a thing. Now she's a millionaire with a kicking website that she started from scratch and didn't owe a dime to anyone else for. It's a great 200 pager with stories on dumpster diving for daily food, entrepreneurship tips, and being the backwards kid that no one t

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early sunset in Ft Langley I love reading all these "Top 10" lists of favorite books read throughout the year, so I'm adding my two cents. I'm involved in a Book Club that I love with women from our church, a small group that meets every week and goes through a book every few months, my own list, books I'm reading aloud to the kids and books I'm reading for educational purposes (think professional development). I took a look at all of those combined and this is what I got, in no particular order: * The Problem of God by Mark Clark - I loved going through this academic apologetic book with my friends from church. It led us to great discussion, and good food for thought. I listen to Clark's sermons every week and so knew I'd probably love his writing style, too. If you have objections to Christianity, or are feeling confused about what to believe, this is a great primer. * You're Smarter Than You Think by Dr. Thomas Armstron

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