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I Lived Through It
Given that it’s 7:50 pm on December 31st where I am on the east coast of the United States, I feel compelled to write something about the impending new year. I suppose I should write a reflection on 2024 and my hopes and goals for 2025. I’ve actually done quite a bit of reflecting on… →
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My Perfect Haven
You get to build your perfect space for reading and writing. What’s it like? I love this question today because I actually have the perfect space for all the things I like to do! Well, it’s almost perfect. I am currently on the hunt for a comfortable chair and ottoman to put in the room.… →
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New Year, New Beginnings: Celebrating January
What’s your favorite month of the year? Why? I pondered this for a moment because I feel like my immediate reaction would be to say December, you know, because of Christmas. I love the Christmas season. I might consider July because that’s my birthday month and for so many years it meant that I was… →
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Journaling Through Mental Illness
My quest to re-read all of my journals from start to finish continues. I am in the middle of reading #18 out of 38. This particular journal is one of the most compelling. It’s the one that needs to see the light of day the most. It covers the period of time when my mental… →
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Websites That Inspire Creativity and Support Mental Health
I honestly wasn’t going to respond to this prompt today because there’s really only two websites that I visit frequently, not including WordPress. Facebook is one of them, but there’s not anything particularly unique or exceptionally interesting about Facebook. The other website is one that I prefer to keep to myself. For many years I… →
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A Conversation
I think I’ve mentioned before that I have a big writing project in mind and a big part of that revolves around the contents of 30 years worth of journals that I have filled up (and saved) since I was 13. I have started re-reading them and just finished volume #3. The entirety of that… →
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Words of wisdom to get you through…
Sometimes I go through the camera roll on my phone and just scroll through the pictures. I have a few years of pictures on my phone and at some point I’ll upload them to Shutterfly and make a photo book to be printed so I still have the pictures but can delete them off my… →
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Oh the memories!!
From a young age, I have wanted to be a writer. But I also wanted to be a teacher. Because teaching was a guaranteed career, as in, I wouldn’t have to struggle to get published in order to have a paycheck, I followed the path to being a teacher. I compromised though and told myself… →
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Daily Prompt Response—Best Advice
What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received? I never personally received this advice, but I kind of did. This advice came from a fictional t.v. mom on the show “Life Goes On” (told you I was a 90s kid). Her daughter Becca was over-analyzing some situation with her boyfriend or something else teen… →
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Aging gracefully and with pride
Time has certainly started marching across my face lately. A month or so ago I posted about finding my first gray hair and being excited about it. I had discovered the beginning of crow’s feet a while before that. I didn’t really think too much about the crow’s feet until a couple days ago when… →