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Dingo Mad Dog

My husband and I are learning international morse code, purely for the heck of it. We like leveling up, even in obscure skills like morse code. Anyways. There are a few different methods of learning. This is one way: We chose not to use this method on account of…my brain shuts down before it even…

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Old Journal Entries

I ended up digging through some of my own vintage journals today. Mostly circa 2015-2016. Thought I’d share a few that I found amusing. My journaling practice has grown into a real thing over the past few years. Probably because, over the past few years, I’ve needed it more than ever. I’m really proud of…

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Lunar New Year

* Crossed out embarrassed because it felt like a harsh word choice. Some alternatives: critical, dubious?, or maybe “a little bit skeptical…” * Big fan of Austin Kleon; his books, his blog, his newsletter. There’s a palpable rhythm at the end of a day, week, month, year. Something about an ending that overlaps with a…

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Back again

Hi. Hello. It’s me again. Happy Lunar New Year and happy first day of February! A quick, vague recap: My world fell apart sometime last February. The grief-recovery was a brutal blur and it cast a shadow on almost the entire year. Hence the lack of online presence. Anyhow, I’m on the other side of…

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Grief Personal

Do your best; when you can, if you can

Whoa.  Yesterday I wrote some words about how life is going, really going. The update itself was vague, but the emotional word vomit was not. After I published the post I spent about 10 minutes panicking in disbelief that I actually posted it, and heavily considered deleting the whole thing. Against my better judgement I…

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