A Little Bit Of Me | Lifestyle Blog by Charnita Fance

I'd never heard of Marsupilami before this game showed up in my inbox. I hadn't played the first one, and I didn't know the character at all, so I started Marsupilami 2: Salsa Palombia on my Nintendo Switch OLED with no expectations. I played in bed with the lights off, which probably made the colors look even brighter than they are. Within a few minutes, I was saying out loud that it felt a lot like Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze . I recorded my thoughts the whole time, so this is a first-impressions post from about 35 minutes and two levels. I haven't beaten the game, and I'm not going to pretend I have. What I can tell you is how it felt to pick up as a total beginner, what tripped me up, and who I think will love it. Disclosure: I received this item free in exchange for my honest review. All opinions are 100% my own. ⚡ Key Takeaways 🎨 The colors are bright, the music is upbeat, and it looks great on a Switch OLED. 🔄 Eve...

Peter died recently (October 2, 2026), and I still can't believe I'm writing that. Our neighbors across the street brought him home around September 22, 2025, so we only got about a year with him. Friday morning my husband answered the door, came into the bedroom, and woke me up with "Peter's dead." I've never had a worse way to start a day, and I was in shock. This post is my way of saying goodbye to a cat who wasn't technically ours but acted like he was. If you've ever loved a neighborhood cat, you probably know how this feels. I'm writing it the same day, so it's raw, and I'm okay with that. ⚡ Key Takeaways 🐈 Peter was an orange tabby from across the street who spent most of his days at our front door. 🐈 He was found in a neighbor's yard on October 2, 2026, and we'll never know what happened. 🐈 His family said he was "all our cat," and that's exactly how he lived. ...

Making friends as an adult is harder than anyone warns you about. You get busy, you move, your schedule fills up with work and errands and whatever else life throws at you, and one day you realize you haven't had a real conversation with a friend in months. Make Friends with Anyone: Practicing God's Design for Real Friendship in a Lonely World by Wayne Francis showed up in my mailbox right as I'd been thinking about how much my own circle has shifted over the past few years, and it turned out to be exactly the kind of practical, no-fluff read I needed. Wayne Francis is the lead pastor of The Life Church New York and also serves as chaplain for the Brooklyn Nets, so he's spent a lot of time watching how people connect, or don't, in a city where everybody is theoretically surrounded by people all day long. His book isn't a theoretical take on friendship. It's a working guide built from years of pastoring, counseling, and his own relationships, and it reads ...

Some books explain grief to you. This one just sits next to you in it. This Side of the Sky: 101 Poems and Scriptures for the Hungry, Hopeful, and Homesick is Laura Wifler's debut poetry collection, and it landed on my porch during a season when I've been thinking a lot about loss, my body changing, and what it means to keep believing God is near when life doesn't feel like it. Wifler is best known as the cofounder of Risen Motherhood, so I went in expecting something aimed mostly at moms. It's not that narrow. This is a book about being a woman who is aging, grieving, hoping, and still trying to notice God in the middle of an ordinary, sometimes exhausting life. It just happens that a lot of that experience overlaps with motherhood, without requiring you to be a mom yourself to feel what she's getting at. Disclosure: I received this item free in exchange for my honest review. All opinions are 100% my own. ⚡ Key Takeaways 📖 This Side of the ...

Worthy Girl: Believing in God's BIG Purpose for You is a picture book written by Marshawn Evans Daniels and published by Zonderkidz. It came out on September 15, 2026, and it's aimed at girls ages 4 to 8. The whole point of the book is pretty simple. It tells girls, in language a little kid can actually follow, that they're loved, chosen, and made on purpose for something that matters. That might sound like a message you've heard before, but Daniels writes it in a way that feels more like a poem than a lecture. The text has a rhythm to it, so it reads well out loud, which matters a lot for a bedtime book. You're not fighting through stiff sentences trying to make it sound natural. It already sounds like something you'd want to say to a kid you love. Disclosure: I received this item free in exchange for my honest review. All opinions are 100% my own. Daniels isn't new to this kind of message. She's the creator of the Godfidence movement , which is bas...