by Margaret Philbrick | Jun 19, 2025 | Books, Community, Growing Life, Margaret's Musings
It’s impossible how fast babies grow in their first year! We hardly recognize them from the “old” newborn photos. Those scrawny little, needy babes get chunky, become aware and begin to vie for themselves. It’s the same in the life of a book....
by Margaret Philbrick | Mar 28, 2025 | Art, Culture, Margaret's Musings
YAY! Isn’t celebrating the piano on Saturday, March 29th better than celebrating National Pita Day? Both of these are new “named days,” but Piano Day is world-wide and the esteemed Pita Day is only national so we are going to focus on Worldwide Piano...
by Margaret Philbrick | Feb 8, 2023 | Death, Dying, Loss
I think there are two kinds of people, those who watch expiration dates and throw out the ketchup and mustard as soon as the date arrives and those who don’t look at expiration dates or think about them. My dad died on January 24th, 2023 and he did not look at...
by Margaret Philbrick | Apr 3, 2018 | Uncategorized
In the Spirit of Easter joy here’s some thoughts on how to move beyond just cutting people off who we don’t see eye to eye with. I recently became aware of the writing of Dr. Brene Brown and her talk at the National Cathedral blessed me. If this post...
by Margaret Philbrick | Oct 30, 2017 | Uncategorized
John Koehler, founding publisher at the small indie press, Koehler Books just wrote this blog post for their website,http://www.koehlerbooks.com/the-truth-about-book-marketing/ While reading it, he jarred my thoughts back to book marketing with a sigh. My experience...
