Learn, Smile, Grow publishes on Dec. 20, 2025!
Learn, Smile Grow is a Combined Set of Books 1-3 in the LifeSPARKS Lifelong Learning Series, that has been a long time in the making. This book will be available directly from Ingram Spark, from the buy link above, and eventually from various retailers except Amazon. (Individual Books 1, 2, 3 will still be available at Amazon.)
To celebrate, use the link above for a discounted Book Birthday Deal from Dec. 20 – 25!
There are many guided journal exercises and activities ideal for end of year reflections and dreaming and planning about your goals and learning experiments for the coming year.
I hope you’ll consider getting yourself a copy or sharing the link with a friend. Whether you are reflecting and planning for yourself, or your family, a surrounding yourself with a supportive community helps when you are learning just for fun or to deal with new or unexpected challenges.
Heart-felt Thanks, from the Acknowledgements
Having support to begin new chapters in our lives and to close chapters we’ve outgrown is vital for lifelong learning. I’m so grateful for all of you who have helped me keep learning—especially my husband and son for your support, encouragement, and feeling all the feels as we learn to be our full selves.
Thanks to my Wednesday Writers and women of letters, Tamsen, Eileen, Spring, Kris, and Catriona for your support, laughter, snacks, pandemic zooms, celebrations, feedback, wit, and wisdom. Thank you for seeing me as an author and encouraging me to write new things.
Carrie S, thank you for your beautiful illustrations, covers, laughter, support with parenting, parental caregiving, self-publishing, and still figuring who we want to be when we grow up. Thanks Eileen R and Crystal A for editing and proofreading support, friendship, and encouraging my journey as a writer. Thanks Ameryn B, for covers and feedback while we volunteered together.
Thank you, Jade, Lexie, Nathanael, Francesca, and Teddy for questions about learning through the pandemic that helped to shape the revisions and additional material. I’ll work on your stories next, I promise!
Thanks to dear friends Rosemary P, Cyndi M, Ruth Y, Julie G, and Daniel B. who jumped in with support across the distances and years and have always encouraged me to speak up and use my voice. Thanks to the many homeschooling/unschooling moms and families who walked with us on our family’s learning journey. Thanks to readers who keep asking questions as they meet new learning challenges and help me articulate what I’ve learned.
Finally, thank you to my dearly loved and deeply missed Steve and Esther, my very own Moomin Mama and Papa. You welcomed my anxious teenaged self into your family and modeled healthy and joyful ways of learning and living. So many of the strategies are rooted in what I learned from you.
Happy Book Birthday, Winter Solstice, and all the December Holidays! I hope you will join me in a journey into the LifeSPARKS Land of Learning – where we celebrate learning in many ways, places, and at all times. Thank you for being here.
