September 30, 2016

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June 17, 2016

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…

April 22, 2016

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…

April 5, 2016

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…

February 22, 2016

“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…

January 25, 2016

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…