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Hello. I've hinted on my Instagram (@justcommonly) that I'm in the process of coming back after years away from blogging.  @justcommonly I had the very intention to be posting within a week of the first hint.  Yet life is full of surprises. As I was trying to reinstate my original blog (Just Commonly), I, unfortunately, had multiple technical issues due to the time length the blog was deactivated. Once I had it up and running, several "reports" had Google banned certain old posts, and eventually the blog itself. At this point, I had seriously doubted if it means I should just forget about it. Was my blog that bad and/or offensive that it was reported for malicious content and Google violations?  I submitted a review request, with the response that the blog link was no longer available to be reactivated. After some prayers and deliberation, I have changed the handle from justcommonly.blogspot to alwaysjustcommonly.blogspot.  I have uploaded and republished...

Hello! As many of you who are also followers of my blog, I have announced on June 20th that all activity on the blog is suspended and the blog will officially be closed and offline by next Summer. This is to keep the articles live for another year, and I will make sure all reviews are posted on relevant retailers as well (if it isn't already). This community has been such a blessing! (I'm not leaving.) However, due to some personal reasons, I need to reset my priorities, and therefore come to this conclusion. In all honesty, I'm still a newbie, with just over 4 years on the block, but I've received soooo much support from all of you. I want to express my heartfelt thank you. The following 5 subscribers are my very first subscribers since this blog began in 2015. So I want to thank you by sending you a gift. Please check your email within the next few hours. There should be an email coming from me with more info on how to claim your prize.. gloria_f...* psalm1...

June is National Migraine & Headache Awareness Month.   It's only since being diagnosed with migraines have I started understanding how vast and severely debilitating a disease it is. Migraine is a disabling disease that affects 37 million people in the United States. If you know someone with migraines, be it a love one or a friend, co worker or even just an acquaintance, get to how the migraine is affecting them, and not just assume. Take 15 minutes to watch the video below to get a better understanding of what is a migraine.   For more info, you can get more information from the following organizations: American Headache Society American Migraine Foundation Migraine.com Migraine Research Foundation Readers here will know my sporadic schedule has been ongoing for the past year since I was first diagnosed with migraines. About several months ago, it has progressed and officially diagnosed as chronic migraines. Unfortunately, I have yet to find a goo...

Title:   Hold On Tight Series: The Bridgeport Social Club, Book 3 Author: Shelley Shepard Gray Publisher:    Black Stone Publishing Release Date: June 11, 2019 Genre:  Contemporary Romance Links*:  Amazon  l  Goodreads  l  Book Depository   Jackson Koch had already lost his wife to cancer when the town's coal mines shut down and his job was gone too. So, with a three-year-old daughter to care for and a broken heart to mend, he moved across the country to find a new life in Bridgeport, Ohio. Now he tends bar by night and tries to navigate life as a single dad by day. Luckily, his neighbor is happy to babysit while he works late nights. She's great with little Kate, beautiful, kind ... and lately he's found himself smiling whenever he thinks about her. Dani Brown also knows what it's like to lose a spouse and raise a child on her own. Cleaning houses during the day, and taking online classes at n...

ABOUT  The Number of Love Title:   The Number of Love Series: Codebreakers, Book 1 Author:  Roseanna M. White Publisher:  Bethany House  Release Date:   June 4, 2019 Genre:  Historical Romance Links*:  Amazon  l  Goodreads  l  Book Depository  l  CBD    l  Itunes The Toughest Puzzle She'll Have to Solve Might Be the Wishes of Her Own Heart Three years into the Great War, England’s greatest asset is their intelligence network—field agents risking their lives to gather information, and codebreakers able to crack every German telegram. Margot De Wilde thrives in the environment of the secretive Room 40, where she spends her days deciphering intercepted messages. But when her world is turned upside down by an unexpected loss, for the first time in her life numbers aren’t enough. Drake Elton returns wounded from t...

Art in SoHo in the 1980s by Laura Tucker  Olympia, the main character of my novel All the Greys on Greene Street , is an artist. Sometimes her art is a delight, and sometimes it’s a source of frustration, but it is a constant companion—it is how she sees the world. That’s one the reasons I set the book in the SoHo neighborhood of New York in the early 1980s. It was one of the most exciting creative hubs of the twentieth century. When artists first started moving into SoHo in the 1960s, it was an abandoned warehouse district known by firefighters as Hell’s Hundred Acres. It was dirty and dangerous and desolate, especially at night, when the trucks left and the factory workers went home. But it was cheap, and enormous windows flooded the industrial spaces with natural light. The lofts were vast—Olympia learns to ride a bike in her family’s loft—so artists could work on huge canvases and enormous sculptures, and collaborate with dancers and musicians. The...