Category: Related Things
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Year is Halfway Over, Book is Halfway Finished, I’m Halfway Between Homes, and I Don’t Have an Accountability Partner
What a weekend! We packed up my childhood home and moved into an apartment an hour away. You don’t realize how much stuff you have until you have to pack up a four-bedroom house. I’ll be honest and say we were not prepared for the house-selling process. We did not think ahead to sell the…
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Journaling is Writing
I’m a strong advocate for journaling. It’s a great way to relive stress, flesh out thoughts, and memorialize events in our lives. I often use journaling to vent my frustrations and to really understand what I’m thinking. There are times when I can’t fully work through what I’m feeling until I write things down. Strangers…
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A Literary Shadow Box
It’s been a few months since my short story “Makers of Men” was published in Issue 3 of midnight & indigo. One of the things I was excited to do when the book came out was to memorialize a copy for myself. I had an old shadow box that I bought on sale at Michael’s…
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We Are Not Ourselves
The title caught me immediately, but I haven’t decided how to feel about this book. To be fair, I’m still at the beginning, slowly reading through each chapter. I haven’t been pulled into the story yet. All I know so far is there are Irish immigrants, there’s a girl and her father and her mother.…
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Indulging in a Writing MasterClass
I honestly did not mean to leave you hanging the past couple of weeks. It’s just that none of the things I wanted to say felt right coming out. I was going to tell you about my book coming back from the editor and my budgetary constraints slowing the self-publishing process to a standstill, but…
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Puzzle Break!
When was the last time you started a puzzle? And the last time you completed one? I woke up this past Saturday morning with the unusual urge to do a puzzle! I can’t remember the last time I had a puzzle, let alone actually putting one together. Last week was entirely stressful and I needed…
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All the Black Teas!
Okay, not all of them, but a few. For the past few years I’ve been drinking Publix brand black tea bags even though all my other teas have been loose leaf teas from Tea Clan. A couple weeks ago I was running low on black tea and decided to switch to loose leaf once and…
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Is It That Time Already?
My hot chocolate cravings have started. This usually doesn’t happen until after Thanksgiving, but it’s been a weird year. I’m also blaming it on the fact that we’ve got a new hot chocolate maker in the house. A clever, but hardly efficient, little contraption that makes half a cup of hot chocolate at a time…
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Ginger Happy Tea
One of my current favorite teas is the Be Happy Tea from Tea Clan. It’s an herbal tea mix of guayusa, raspberry bits, apple bits, green rooibos, green jasmine tea, hibiscus, rosehips, and “natural flavor”. All the ingredients (other than “natural flavor”) are listed as organic. One of my favorite ways to make this tea…
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What goes better with a good book than…
…a cup of tea? I heart a good cup of tea whether or not it’s with a good book (or any book for that matter). I went on a trip to Georgia last year with my mom, aunt, and a few of my girl-cousins. While at the Mall of Georgia I found this cute little…
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