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    Knitting (and Crochet) Notes for January 2025

    January 15, 2025 - By 

    Happy Wednesday, readers! I hope this post finds you well. This week I wanted to share a little about my recent fiber crafting pursuits. One of my intentions for this year is to spend more time doing creative things that I enjoy and that beautify my life. I also am trying to move away from fast fashion and overconsumption in my wardrobe and home goods. One of the ways I can do that is knitting and crocheting some of the items I will use, making them with natural fibers that will last for many years. After several years of owning…

  • Books and Reading

    Reading Report, Vol. 23: My Literary Goals for 2025

    January 8, 2025 - By 

    As I promised in my first post of this new year, I am back this week with an update on my reading life. With all the stress of renovating, selling our house, packing up and moving across the country, and just normal daily life “stuff”, reading became very difficult for me in 2024. I would start books, only to drop them a chapter or two in. I would turn on an audio book only to mentally tune it out while my mind filled with distracted thoughts and to-do lists. In the evenings when I would normally have picked up a…

  • Life in General

    A Fresh Start

    January 1, 2025 - By 

    Dear Reader, I do not quite know how to begin a post here after such a long absence. I can give no eloquent explanation for why I suddenly stopped writing blogs for over a year. I just got busy doing other things, I suppose, and was perhaps feeling a bit uninspired. But lately I have been longing to get back here and write again, so I decided to make writing regular posts (hopefully weekly!) one of my projects for 2025. I have a lot of ideas for topics, but first, I think a general life update is in order! Six…

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    Reading Report, Vol. 22: My Literary Life Update!

    May 22, 2023 - By 

    Hello there! How can it be that I haven’t updated the blog in over two years!? Yikes! It has been a very full two years, let me tell you! Many life updates would be in order after such a long break, but for today, I will stick to an update of the bookish kind. Last week, I had the great pleasure of chatting with my podcast clients (and friends) on The Literary Life podcast about my own literary life. I was a bit nervous and scattered, and I didn’t love editing my own episode (ha!). But it was great fun…

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    To Homeschool Happier: A Little Recap and Refresh, Part 2

    March 8, 2021 - By 

    Well, it’s taken me a bit longer than I had planned to get back to write the second part of this post! But here I am, nonetheless! To recap, last time I wrote about the end of our school year and how burned out I felt, essentially. Today, I am sharing what I am doing differently going forward in order to have a happier, healthier homeschool! First of all, I have decided to switch from the year round school schedule we have been using to a more traditional school year schedule. There were several factors that helped me make this…