Hannah Bergstrom de Leon

On Friends Becoming Authors

Let’s be clear… Emmy Kegler is my friend. Not an acquaintance. Not a woman I had a few classes with in seminary. Not one of…

I finished A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi in less than 24 hours. I cannot tell you the last time I read a…

So Book War readers I gotta tell you…whew! January was hard. I did get through it… barely…without buying a book, but it was real touch…

Picture this… Me, sitting beside Leonel as we near the series end of Parks and Recreation on Netflix. I know that soon, I will be…

I can no longer hide from myself, I am ready to own this truth…I am a literary snob. Now most likely you all already knew…

This year my challenge is simply to READ MY DRESSER. As you can tell by the pictures above, my dresser, which stores my “to-read” books…

So as a reminder to us all…. Here were my “Reading Goals” as outlined in January of 2018. Beat Haddi bloody… Read the books I…

So I have never had to write a concession speech before and yes, I did Google it. I wanted to see what makes a good,…

It’s not every day I find myself talking to my boys about consent, but IT IS every day that I find myself practicing the values of…

Today is All Saints’ Sunday. For the Christian church we take time to remember those that have died, but this ritual of remembering, of marking…