Welcome to my blog!

Welcome! I’m excited to be here and hope that this blog will serve as a great companion - a deeper dive so to speak - to my Instagram, The First Paragraph.

If I can conquer my absolute ineptness with all things technology, I am hoping to create content for people who love books and all things book-related as well as lovely vintage finds, travel and sometimes a bit of lifestyle.

I have had and am still having a great love affair with books. Books make me happy. I love to read them, of course - but I also love to look at them, be surrounded by them, hunt for them, collect them and share them with others. When I was little, one of my earliest memories is my step-mom reading The Hobbit to my sister and I. We were captivated. Books like The Chronicles of Narnia, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Trixie Beldon, The Hardy Boys - these were the stories of my childhood. I am so thankful for this gift of reading and being read to as a child.

I read slowly but deeply. I am not one of those Bookstagrammers or BookTubers that can consume 10 books in a month. It took me the first three months of 2023 to read War and Peace. I love all literature but clear favorite genre’s are cozy British Murder Mysteries, YA Fantasy and Literary Classics (not sure that is a genre).

My other great passion is visiting Vintage Markets and antique stores. I am nostalgic and a collector of useful things from the past. I especially search for things that remind me of my grandparents and then try and incorporate them into my daily life.

I’m sure this blog will evolve and I thank you for joining me here. I do hope you will visit frequently.

I’ll sign off with my motto/mantra: Choose happiness today because tomorrow is not a promise.