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Yesterday, as we took down the pictures from our walls and the movers packed up our stuff, part of me wished that we could live somewhere long enough to…

Two years ago today, I took the plunge and wrote my first blog post. I had spent over a year thinking about starting a blog, talking about starting…

There’s a reason why I chose fearless as my word for 2016. It’s because half the time, I’m terrified. My idea to focus on living fearlessly came when…

“After that, things can only get better.” Stephen King is talking about writing here in his memoir, On Writing, but doesn’t this advice apply to pretty much everything…

It was time for me to put together my annual list of my favorite books, so I went onto Goodreads and started going through the list of books I…