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A place to find creative writing, drawings, fanfic, flowers and whatever other randomness I'm into. Haters get lost. 

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The Importance of Stories

I was visiting family last week with my eldest, since she and I both had breaks from our usual daily responsibilities and neither of us had seen visited this family in awhile. Overall it was a peaceful, relaxing visit, but as I waited for our plane to get to the gate, I realized that there was another theme throughout the visit – the sharing of stories. Revisiting memories has always been an…

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Bloganuary 9: What is your mission?

Since the thyroidectomy, I’ve had a good amount of time to consider what my mission, or goals in life, are. This has been a big shift for me, as I’ve needed to slow down in order to heal, and this time period has coincided with not having work – wide open time to shape as I will. When I was working full time, I enjoyed the financial security and alleviation of pressure which arose from differing…

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Bloganuary 8: Living a Very Long Life

My immediate response is that it would be amazing to live a very long life, but then the quantifiers come in. Would it be a long, healthy life? Or are we theorizing about life as it is currently, since becoming a centenarian isn’t such an uncommon or out-of-reach prospect anymore? Centenarian Expectations If we’re imagining the latter – long life, but maybe about a third of it in a state of…

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Bloganuary 6: If you had a freeway billboard, what would it say?

“RUOK?” “With the help of a talking freeway billboard, a wacky weatherman tries to win the heart of an English newspaper reporter, who is struggling to make sense of the strange world of early 1990s Los Angeles,” description of LA Story from IMDB. Starring Steve Martin, Victoria Tennant and Sarah Jessica Parker, this movie came out in 1991. I would’ve been about ten years old then, but I don’t…

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Bloganuary 5: Do You Spend More Time Thinking About the Future or the Past & Why?

I hope this was informative, helpful or at the very least fun for you to read.

I find this to be a slightly tricky question, because there’s lots of advice against overly considering either the future or the past. Too much focus on either one means you aren’t present enough in the present. Mindfulness is all about living in the moment, not yearning for something different to have happened or for your situation to be different than its current state. The History of…

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Bloganuary 4: What is the Greatest Gift Anyone Could Give You

I’d like to start by apologizing for yesterday’s rambling, incoherent post. I’d slept really poorly the night before, and got overwhelmed with family news so my brain was quite scattered. But hey – happens to everyone, right? We’re only human. Thanks for coming back & giving me another shot. Every year for as long as I can remember, my siblings and I ask our Dad what he’d like for Christmas, and…

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Bloganuary 3: What College Did You Attend

This, is a super disappointing prompt, a conversation killer. When a question’s answer is one-worded, you’re given an answer and then there is nowhere else to go. I thought about different ways to keep this going, flow it into a more detailed post about college, but it feels kind of empty. I really enjoyed parts of college, but there were also some really difficult times. It’s a real mixed bag,…

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Bloganuary day 2:Do you play in your daily life?

This is a good question, but I think it depends upon what we consider “play.” Play is defined as an activity engaged in for enjoyment and recreation rather than for practical purposes. By that definition, I could consider a daily walk play, although that may be a bit of a fudged definition, because it is also practical – it helps with my physical and mental fitness. Writing might be considered…

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Writing Prompt

WordPress has a neat feature where you can follow hashtags, such as #writingprompt. Apparently, there is a challenge called #bloganuary, where writers attempt to write everyday this month. I had made that “resolution” myself anyway, since I’m home recovering from a surgery and some surprise news thereof, so may as well make it part of a group effort? ::insert cheesy awkward smile emoji:: The…

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My Total Thyroidectomy

Who remembers when the movie Fight Club came out? It was 1999, the year the artist formerly known as Prince had been singing about for 17 years, the year people were vaguely freaking out about a possible mass computer crash, and the year I graduated high school. I met my future husband in the Fall of ’99, slung bagels for the Summer, and was completely blown away by Ed Norton’s performance. So…

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Blood Fae: Prologue

“Sam – wait up!” The boys were running through the forest, playing a game of hide and seek. They grew up close to those woods, and knew them like the back of their hands. There was nothing to be afraid of, no dark, hidden spaces they hadn’t discovered during a long Summer afternoon, the sun guarding them from any sinister possibilities.

They took turns being “it,” the more delightful role of…

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