Happy New Year!

I know. It’s August. But when you have school-age kids, the start of the school year actually feels like the start of a new year. It may be in the middle-ish of the calendar, but we’re starting new schedules, making new goals, sporting new haircuts, wearing new clothes (some of us).

It feels like a fresh start in blogging, too. I scaled things back this summer and took some time with the family. We did our annual road trip to California. We did a smaller weekend trip. We spent some days bumming around the house. And we took a few spur-of-the-moment day trips to lakes and creeks and mountains near us. It was lovely.

As we gear up for fall, I just wanted to take the temperature of the blog. Find out what you find helpful, what you don’t, how I can work to solve problems for you or at least commiserate if there isn’t a solution. And so — the First Ever Peace but Not Quiet Reader Survey (trumpet noise! Ta-da!)

It’s less than 10 questions, several of them multiple choice. It should take about 5 minutes to complete. And because I know your time is valuable — I’m giving away a $30 Amazon gift card to one lucky person who fills out the survey.

If you have trouble answering the survey above, you can also answer it here.

Thank you so much.