• RANDOM ACT OF KINDNESS

    RANDOM ACT OF KINDNESS

    My random acts of kindness are very simple. They range from a heartfelt out of the blue text to someone expressing how much I appreciate them, a candy bar/snack left for them, a random gift to maybe paying for a stranger’s order in a drive thru, etc. Random acts of kindness never entered my mind

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  • STORIES AFTER DARK

    I am a Reading Specialist, Writer, Mother, Yoga Enthusiast, and an avid reader. This summer, I am using my time to finish some writing that has been begging me to finish. It is also begging me to find an Agent. We will see what the future holds. I am throwing around the idea of also

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  • My favorite genre of music? This is perhaps the hardest question for me as I love many different types of music. I grew up in a rural town. As a teenager, I loved country music and heavy metal. Quite the combination. One minute listening to Guns N’ Roses and the next listening to Keith Whitley.

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  • Apologies: A tale of truth

    Hi Y’all, It has been a LONG time. I have missed writing on my blog and writing in general. The past year has been a blur filled with frustration, love, misery, pain, anxiety, and fulfillment. A lot of emotions in a short time. I apologize for coming and going so often. Five years ago, life

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  • The summer after a covid school year

    The last time I posted was quite a while ago. I stated how I was going to write more, journal more, etc., etc. Well, it didn’t happen. I totally own it. I completely underestimated the power of grief from losing my mother a year ago, being a mother of a son who is struggling with

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  • Journaling through life

    Journaling through life

    Remember the good ol’ days when, as a child, we would write all our hopes, dreams, embarrassing moments, crushes, parent woes, etc. in our diaries? If you didn’t, then you missed out on unleashing all your thoughts onto paper then hiding them as if no one could ever find them. My diary back then had

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  • Happy new year! Let’s remember 2020 instead of…

    It is finally here 2021!!! 2020 seemed to spiral out of control with COVID, social distancing, virtual as well as in-person distanced mask-wearing school, my mother passing away, gaining weight from stress and ordering delivery, etc. I felt like 2020 would never go away. Now that it is gone, I feel like I am almost

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  • yoga to the rescue

    yoga to the rescue

    2020 has been quite the year. People you know, or you yourself, have lost loved ones, been sick, have friends that are sick and/or in the hospital, stressed to the max at work and at home, etc. I could go on and on. We all have different ways to deal with stress from becoming more

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  • Writing during a pandemic

    Writing during a pandemic

    I have had a hard time sitting down to write for quite some time. I keep talking about it and thinking about; however, something always seems to get in the way. I can make the excuse that I don’t have time, but I do spend some time on the couch watching Netflix. I can make

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  • Coffee, my love

    Coffee, my love

    There is just something special about drinking coffee outside. I am not sure what it is, but when we go glamping, it is the first thing I look forward to. Second being whatever hike we do that day. The last time we went glamping (camping in a cabin or camper versus a tent) was at

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  • ART and the Grieving Cave

    As a child, my mother made a big deal about making sure her rural county – living daughters were exposed to museums, parks, art, the city, plays, etc. I have wonderful memories of sitting next to her in the field by our house as she sketched. The long grass was itchy, but it didn’t seem

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  • Quarantine Life

    Quarantine Life

    The past two and half months, since schools closed, have been crazy to say the least. COVID-19 has really thrown us all for a loop. The first week schools closed, I admit I was happy. Relieved even because it has been a tough school year. We all thought it was temporary so it felt like

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