Drops of Inspira

  Hello! I'm popping in to share with you all some important news. Do you remember back in July when I said I was looking into going back to school? Well, earlier this year I decided to go back. To many people I know this seemed like a very hasty decision, but I have been looking into it for some time. This past week I started back at the community college I graduated from back in 2017 with the goal of obtaining an English AA degree for transfer. I'm not sure where I'm going to transfer to yet, (I need to talk to a school counselor), but I'm finally taking steps to getting a BA in English.  I'm taking four classes:   World Literature ,  British Literature , Humanities 100,   and Introduction to the American Novel .  I knew there would be a lot of reading, but I don't think I realized quite how much reading there would be. One class has me reading about a book a week. Now, I love reading. I really do. I was the kid who would sneak away from chores ...

Hi there!   I realized I haven't done a post with any updates or goals in a long time, so buckle up. This might be a lengthy one.    Tomorrow marks the 1st anniversary of Poetry 15th. Can't believe I started this little adventure a year ago. I love the challenge of coming up with a bit of poetry every month. Some months are harder than others, but then there are those months where the poem is tugging at my heartstrings and ready to be released into the wilds. I've read 41 out of 60 books for this year's Goodreads Challenge. Here are the ones I've read so far. For some of them, Goodreads doesn't show the cover.  Here are the books I'm currently reading: I apologize for the poor quality of these pictures. I nabbed them off of Goodreads.   I'm also reading Resistance  by Jaye L. Knight. For some reason, Goodreads didn't register it. I'll have to fix that.  Goals for this month: Finish Resistance. Start and finish Holes . (This is a Book Club boo...

"Did we get any mail today? Are the books here yet?"  Not your typical back-to-school questions, am I correct? Yet these were mine as a child.  School was great fun for me. It meant lots of books, researching bygone eras until I daydreamed of Romans and Carthaginians, lots and lots of math, and English. Most of all, it meant books.  I can remember when the UPS man came to the door with large brown boxes stuffed with books. I could scarcely wait until my mom dragged them to her room and unboxed them.  Once she cut the tape, my hands were in the boxes first, picking up every book, studying the back covers and flipping through the pages. My mom explained to me that these would be part of my literature program that year.  I couldn't believe it. Could I read them all now?  It disappointed me when she said I had to wait until school started. She further explained that I couldn't read them all at once and I had to answer questions as I read.  T...