L.I.T. News - Reading and Writing - Issue 73


Reader,

Welcome! Welcome! to this 73rd issue of the L.I.T. News newsletter. I appreciate you being here. If you're new to this newsletter, I pray that you find your visit here to be most enjoyable and that you'll keep coming back for more. You're family now, so sit back and enjoy the encouraging and helpful information just waiting for you to peruse it. And, if you've been here for a while, I thank you for continuing to support these newsletters. I enjoy creating them because I look forward to you reading them.

Issue 73 is a good one, and the last one for 2025. Here's what you have to look forward to viewing:

  • "Writing With Purpose" statement of what I'll be focusing on in the world of writing
  • "Refer a Friend Program," approaching the fourth quarter
  • "The L.I.T. Corner," holding two new books on the Degrees of Maternity bookshelf
  • a video recommendation from the "Social Proof" YouTube channel
  • a summary of Chapter 11 of Atomic Habits
  • blog posts from the Degrees of Maternity blog
  • HAIRBOWS! HAIRBOWS! AND MORE, HAIRBOWS!

Check it out below:

LIT News - Dec 2025 Issue 73.pdf

​And I can't forget to send you last month's issue in case you didn't get a chance to see it:

​​LIT News - Nov 2025 Issue 72.pdf

We're going to start our deep dive into COMMUNICATION, and I thought what better way to bring in communication but by emphasizing two important means of communication: reading and writing. This month's newsletter is full of it -- from the book recommendations to the video recommendation to the grant writing and the blog posts about reading and writing. The only anomaly is the page about hairbows. Hee. Hee.

You're sure to get a literacy download when you come to L.I.T. News. So, get ready, get ready, get ready. Communication immersion . . . here we come!

Jana/Yahna

Degrees of Maternity

Hi there! I'm Jana (Yahna) Williams.

Welcome to a cozy place to hang out, where life education never ceases. Every 4th Sunday of the month, we’ll explore the areas of personal and professional development with an underlying theme of reading and writing for growth and healing. (I'm a HUGE literacy advocate! And, literacy is intertwined in just about everything I do here online. Take, for instance, the L.I.T. News Newsletter that I hope you'll choose to peruse. The "L.I.T" in the newsletter name is representative of Life-Improvement Training -- which we do a lot of around these parts -- as well as my love of all things literacy.) Just know that, as a content creator, I have a passion for educating others through positive, encouraging, and life-impacting content. Words are powerful once delivered. So, let’s enjoy their empowerment for the good, as we travel this life-improvement journey together.

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