So a little birdie…okay Leonel, because I call him every Sunday when I’m on silent retreat, just like my dad called my mom when we little…
Author: Hannah Bergstrom de Leon
Blog?! What Blog?!?
So it has been two whole months and then a little since I last posted. I just counted it up and I have read 21…
A Reading Kind of Life – Act 2
We pick up my reading kind of life as our family moved to New Hampton, Iowa. Looking back, the move itself didn’t change much for…
Black Lives Matter
A movement, a rallying cry, a plea and an inalienable truth for America to aspire to… to embody, right now because, black lives matter. When…
Fluff is Fair Game
So according to my brother-in-law, Haddi and I don’t read “normal” books and as much as I hate to agree with George on anything (love ya George…who…
Yes! Graphic Novels are Real Books
I read my first graphic novel Maus when I was student teaching in Marshalltown, Iowa during the 2003/04 school year. Maus is the story of Nazi Germany…
Feel What You Are Feeling
It’s what every therapist has ever told me, “Hannah, just feel what you are feeling.” And I won’t lie, after 10 years of on again,…
Hope and Belonging
Throughout life we gravitate toward belonging. Not just welcome, kindness or even love, but actual belonging. Those relationships where if we weren’t a part, something…
A Reading Kind of Life – Act 1
I grew up reading. I grew up surrounded by books knowing there was a vast well of knowledge out there that I would only ever…
Breaking News – Battle Status
Whew! I am back in the lead!!! With 23 to Haddi’s 21 I am semi-solidly winning. It was a rough couple of weeks there as…