It’s time for our Sunday morning chat. On Sundays, I ramble about what’s been going on, what the rest of the family and I have been reading and watching, and what I’ve been writing.

Do you ever get over stimulated when you are on social media? It isn’t that something or anything is negative, but it is just … too much?

I was there this past week, and I had to shut it down.

There are some fun posts and some cool things that I was seeing, but it was just too much. It was like mental overload. Some of it was definitely negative. I find that social media is an outlet for people to complain and run others down.

But even when I was on accounts or was scrolling through people talking about their favorite books or movies, I just felt like my brain was overloaded. This happens to me from time to time, but seems to be happening more and more lately. What I had to do was mute social media for a few days or at least part of the day and watch some movies do some junk journaling anything that didn’t require a lot of noise a lot of images and any kind of scrolling which tends to make me have vertigo anyhow.

Tomorrow is my husband’s and my 24^th wedding anniversary. I’m hoping to make it without getting injured again. Right now, I have a bruise on my arm from the cat when she dug her claw into my arm while I was trying to give her her medicine, a scratch on the back of my foot from when I dropped a knife last night, and my chronic neck issues. The Husband isn’t feeling too great either. Maybe we can just sit in the house with ice and heated rice packs on our shoulders, knees, and everything in between.

What I/We’ve Been Reading

Just Finished

Last week I finished Miss Buncle’s Book by D.E. Stevenson and really enjoyed it. I shared a review of it here.

In Progress

I am slow reading Stillmeadow Daybrook by Gladys Taber. Since each chapter is a month, I plan to read a chapter a month for the rest of 2026 and into 2027. I’m also reading Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis.

Now I am reading The Rose and the Yew Tree by Mary Westcott (Agatha Christie) and Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck

Up Soon

Books I have lined up for the remainder of the summer include: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Murder, She Wrote: Slaying in Savannah, By the Pricking of My Thumbs, and Mystery Mile.

What The Family is Reading

Little Miss and I have been goofing off and not reading from Heidi but I think we will finish it this week.

New arrivals to my bookshelf

My new arrival this week was Travels with Charley, which I bought new because I had an old copy that smelled funny and the new copy was on sale. It smelled amazing, by the way.

What I/We’ve Been Watching

I watched two episodes of Sons of Liberty from the History Channel that ran in 2015. Interesting but not where you go for historical accuracy.

A hot, young Assassin’s Creed look-alike Samuel Adams about the same as John Hancock instead of ten years his senior like in reality? Hmmm…. Okay…Dr. Joseph Warren having some sexy time with General Gage’s wife? Good Lord. Who wrote this? The staff writers at TMZ??

Yeah … it was a nice reimagining (lie) and sensationalized poppycock as General Gage might have said.

I also watched The Apartment with Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacClain, Mr. Blandings Builds a Dream House, and Andy Hardy Meets A Debutante.

What I’ve Been Writing

This week I worked on Gladwynn Grant Goes Back to School.

On the blog I shared:

• Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot July 10
• Book recommendation: Miss Buncle’s Book by D.E. Stevenson
• Top Ten Books with the word secret in the title
• Book review/recommendation: The Ivory Dagger by Patricia Wentworth
• Sunday Bookends: Happy Fourth weekend, heatwave finally broke, and yay for “interesting” old movies

Recent Blog Posts I Enjoyed

250 Years of Independence!

Some Housekeeping

Erin (Still Life, With Cracker Crumbs), Cat (Cat’s Wire) and I host a monthly bookish link party called A Good Book and A Cup of Tea.  This link-up is for book and reading posts or anything related to books and reading (even movies based on books!). Each link party will be open for a month. You can find that link up for this month here.

Each week, I host the Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot with some great hosts. It goes live Thursday night, but you can share any kind of blog posts (family-friendly) there until Tuesday of each week. You can check my recent posts on the sidebar to the right for the most recent link party.

Now It’s Your Turn

What have you been doing, watching, reading, listening to, or writing?

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This post is linked up with The Sunday Post at  Kimba at Caffeinated Reviewer,  Deb at with Deb at Readerbuzz, and Book Date: It’s Monday! What are you reading hosted by Kathyrn at The Book Date and Stacking the Shelves is hosted by Reading Reality.

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