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Bloganuary 5: What Brings Me Joy
Today’s prompt asks, “What brings you joy in life?” This question is a joy to answer! Last year, I had to ask myself these very questions. So much of my life has changed, due to several factors. The pandemic changed things, but I also moved to a new town. I left behind some personal relationships…
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Bloganuary 4: Treasures
So far, I am really enjoying the way Bloganuary’s prompts ask me to dig deeper as a writer and a person, to ponder the prompt and come up with an earnest response. Today’s prompt asks, what is a treasure that’s been lost? For me, for a long time, it was my love of reading. I…
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Bloganuary 3: Earliest Memories
Today’s Bloganuary prompt asks, “What are the earliest memories you have?” I’m blessed. Most of my early memories are very happy ones. That’s thanks to the adults in my life. No children had been born in our family in a long time. A new arrival, especially a little girl, was a novelty. My mother and…
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Bloganuary 2: How Are You Brave?
I discovered #Bloganuary by reading another blog, and I’m all in! I love writing challenges. I wasn’t always a fan of writing prompts, but now I love how you always find out something new about yourself and grow as a result of pondering the prompt’s answer. Todays’s prompt asks, “How are you brave?” If you…
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Kay’s Library: Book Club Pick #4, I Want to Eat Your Pancreas
There are few things more familiar and instinctual to me than heading to the manga shelves on a trip to one of my favorite bookstores. As a Millenial, I grew up during the global popularity explosion of manga and anime franchises like Dragonball, Pokemon, Sailor Moon, Fruits Basket, and Bleach, as well as the feature…
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Falling in Love With Yoga Again
I’m so pleased that the response has been so favorable to my post My Yoga Journey. It took on a life of its own in a way that I didn’t foresee, and in the wake of that I pondered, “What will I write next about the topic of Yoga?” As I touched on in the…
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The Perfect Binge #2: AMC’s Interview With the Vampire
Before streaming channels like Netflix even existed, cable television was the nexus of what has been called the “golden age of television” during the early aughts and 2010s. I loved standout dramas like Lost, Heroes, Sons of Anarchy, True Blood, and Game of Thrones, which helped define the phrase “event television.” These dramas brought a…
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Finding the Eagle Within
I recently read an archaeological news article online about the discovery of evidence of a lost Roman legion in a forest in Germany, the site of a decisive battle during the Roman Empire. Metallurgical traces of the legion’s lost eagle were even recovered. The Lost Eagle The mounted golden eagle was the battle standard that…
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The Perfect Binge #1: Bridgerton Season 2
Here at the blog, I began reviewing books that I have recently read. Now, I’ve decided to give streaming shows that I have enjoyed the same treatment, and recommend them here! The first entry in what I’ll call ‘The Perfect Binge’ is season two of Netflix’s Shondaland drama, Bridgerton. Bridgerton: Regency Romance Reinvented I’ve long…
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Kay’s Library: Book Club Pick #3, Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb
This year, I have been trying to make positive choices and get to know myself better. That means going back to basics, and doing the things I love. My mother fostered a love of reading and books in me and my siblings at a young age, and that love has endured. I loved analyzing classic…
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