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Lindsay Eland

July 19, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Book Review – A Summer of Sundays by Lindsay Eland

Sunday Fowler is the middlest of middle children from Middlesburg, Middletonia, Middletown. At 11 (almost 12!) she is too young for her two older sisters, and too old for her three younger brothers. Everyone in her family either dismisses her, forgets her, or takes her for granted. In fact, in the first couple of chapters, […]

July 19, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Summertimes by Lindsay Eland, author of A Summer of Sundays

For some reason when I picture summer evenings, I often think of porch lights—that little glow in the evening dusk and on into the thick night. Porch lights are a little smile on a house, a twinkle that blinks a warm welcome to neighbors or passersby.             My parents have talked about these.             How […]

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