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July 27, 2025

Reading Quotes Mid-Year 2025

So far this year, I’ve already read 41 books. I am crushing my reading goals! And having a great time doing it! While I’m reading, I like to underline quotes and copy them down into a separate notebook that I flip through sometimes. Here are some from this year that I’ve really liked: There are Continue reading

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May 18, 2025

Read So Far…

What is everyone reading right now? Anything you’re really excited about? I’m almost half way to my reading goal for the year! Here is what I’ve read so far this year, plus some small comments/highlights: Overall, I haven’t read a book I didn’t like this year. It’s been a great year, looking forward to the Continue reading

Book Review, Life, reading

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July 28, 2024

One Hell of a Writer’s Block

I’m dealing with the worst case of writer’s block I’ve ever had. My issue is two-fold at this point: One, I don’t feel like I have any ideas that are worth writing about. Two, I’m suffering from a bit of a “what’s the point” attitude. What I mean by that is I’m questioning why I Continue reading

Life, Writing

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July 30, 2023

Jellyfish Project

As I recently wrote, I’m behind on my current writing projects, but I have managed to work on and finish one project this year. MY JELLYFISH! I am so excited to be learning more about crochet. I’m not perfect at it, but I can see definite improvement between these and older projects I’ve done. Here Continue reading

Life

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March 31, 2023

Ideas, ideas, ideas

Okay, so if you spend time working on creative projects, even if it’s just a craft project that takes time, you will undoubtably have been tempted to abandon the project and start on something new before you finish the first project. I admit that I do this with my own craft projects. I tend to Continue reading

Life, Writing

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March 30, 2021

A Peculiar Peril: Book Review

I’m going to do something that I don’t do very often… review a book. I personally am not a fan of book reviews. They are either rave reviews or really hateful. You rarely find anything in between. So, as a reader and writer, I kind of ignore them. Additionally, I pretty much like something about Continue reading

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February 25, 2021

The Life and Times of Napoleon

Less than a month ago, my family said goodbye to one of our dogs. He was 16 years old and had been losing the battle with a brain tumor since November last year. We knew it was finally time to say goodbye because he would get up and eat breakfast each day and after that Continue reading

Life

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Still Working on My Novel