Category: Mixed Bag
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Darren Rowse Told Me To Start Naked Girl in a Dress and Other Crazy Admissions
Naked Girl in a Dress exists because I want to write a cookbook. It seems like a crazy admission, but it is true. Not having much faith that an unknown in the culinary world could go from a messy spiral with hundreds of recipes scribbled down to published cookbook author, I decided the first step…
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Prepare for an Invasion This Summer
This week I have been busy preparing for an invasion. No, Judgement Day is not coming soon; it is still scheduled for October 21st. This has nothing to do with zombies or aliens either. This invasion is about writers taking over my blog. I have nurtured and cared for my baby blog for over a…
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Inspiration for People who are Separated or Divorced
It has been 29 months since separating from my husband and in 15 days our divorce will be final. Why we are divorcing is not something I will ever share in this space. My soon-to-be ex didn’t agree to blog with me and he certainly deserves his privacy. I have, however, shared how this life-changing event…
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The Angel I Aspired to Be
Who did you want to be, when playing pretend with your friends? Was it the Bionic Woman or the Six Million Dollar Man? How many desperately wanted to be Wonder Woman, with the awesome bullet-deflecting cuff bracelets? Did you fight with friends over which A Team character you would play? My after-school adventures, when I…
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And the Big Announcement is…
All bloggers, on some level, are narcissists. We think readers care about what we made for dinner, how potty training is coming along with Junior, and each major event that happens in our lives. Some are more narcissistic than others, but we all have a small part of it inside us. Otherwise we wouldn’t share…
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Why I Blog
Why do we blog? Do we write to entertain our readers, chronicle our lives, inform the masses, connect with a community, make money, or get published? I believe there are many reasons we blog, but there is one defining commonality among us all: We blog because we love it. Good writing is essential, but just one…