Today I'm so glad to talk with bookstore owner and brand new author Annie B. Jones. Annie owns The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in downtown Thomasville Georgia, and she's the host of From the Front Porch, the store's conversational podcast about books, small business, and life in the South.

Annie talks about books, sells books, and now she's written one of her own. It's called Ordinary Time: Lessons Learned While Staying Put, and it releases into the world on this very day, April 22. Annie challenges the idea that loud lives are the ones that matter most and reminds us that we don't have to leave the lives we have in order to have the lives of which we've always dreamed. Not only do I commend this book to you, I also wrote the forward where I talk even more about my admiration for both Annie as a person and as a writer.

Today we're going to get into what could be magical about a quiet, ordinary life. I hope you'll listen in.

LINKS + RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE:

• • Ordinary Time by Annie B. Jones
  • Follow Annie on Instagram
  • Visit The Bookshelf website
  • Download The Quiet Collection app
  • Join The Soul Minimalist Substack
  • Order a How to Walk into a Room
  • Download the free discussion guide for How to Walk into a Room by visiting this page and clicking the button "Discussion Guide"
  • Download the transcript