• Life in General - Uncategorized

    Goals and Intentions for 2025

    January 22, 2025 - By 

    Hello again, readers! Here we are, a few weeks into the new year, and perhaps the shine has already begun to wear off a little for some of you. I know that we are now over a week past what is now dubbed “Quitter’s Day”, the day when most average folks give up those fabulous New Year’s resolutions they made with such high hopes. I am also aware than many people who have slightly more realistic expectations don’t make resolutions but do set some time aside to reflect on ways to improve themselves going forward. In recent years, I have…

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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…

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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…

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    To Homeschool Happier: A Little Recap and Refresh, Part 1

    February 23, 2021 - By 

    I’ve wanted to share how our homeschool year ended up, but it is hard to get it all out in words. The year 2020 was a very rough one in our homeschool, if I am to be perfectly honest. It was not just the stress of COVID, either. Yes, having less time out and about with friends and having much more limited access to places like the library and even, for a time, local parks and green spaces, definitely took their toll on us. But moving to a new state mid-year, during COVID, was probably the bigger stressor on our…