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You don’t know me but reading my blog gives you some insight into who I am right now. Who I was before remains a mystery at least for a little while. My lives are starting to collide with old friends discovering my blog and new friends discovering my life. On my blog I reveal […]
Brain dumping has freed me up from the confines I had placed on myself about what is a journal and what is a list. It allows me to just get it all out and down on paper. It gives me power over my own thoughts and helps to curb my anxiety. By spending a few
Today’s guest post is from Derra Nicole Sabo author of Anomaly. As someone with anxiety, writing is Derra’s way of speaking. When verbal skills fail, the pen excels. [click_to_tweet tweet=”‘I have always had something to say to the world … I just could never get my mind and mouth to be on the same level.
Living in Appalachia hearing the word honorable makes me think of a shotgun wedding. The ones where a young girl’s daddy, who just happens to be cleaning his hunting rifle, asks the boy if he is planning on doing the honorable thing and marrying his daughter. My daughters were a big fan of Zoey 101
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I have a complaint or more like a pet peeve. I really dislike when people, especially women, try to be someone else. When they don’t embrace their own unique beauty and try to fit into a mold. The current mold I see everyone trying to fit in is the corsetted (waist trainer) waist, big butt,
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Mr. Anders had seen a family tossed out by hired men just hours after the father had been killed in a mine explosion. A woman heavy with child and four little children with nowhere to go tossed out like garbage. He could still hear her crying and screaming in Italian not understanding what was happening.
This month I am participating in Just Jot It January. Basically, what this means is I am committing to write every day in January and writing is loosely defined as anything from one sentence to an entire short story. Whatever, I feel like doing that day is ok, as long as I write something. There are
An interview with Krystal Jane Ruin the author of Winter’s Siren.
Today’s guest post is Robin Gregory author of The Improbable Wonders of Moojie Littleman, her first published novel. Robin was born in Pensacola, Florida and grew up in California with seven siblings surrounded by horses, real cowboys, and the occasional rattlesnake. She has always been drawn to helping others, a trait that began, to her
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Jan is the author of Shoes on the Stairs. In addition to writing, she loves to travel, volunteer, watch college basketball and sunsets.
Spider veins run up her thighs and disappear somewhere under her skirt. She hates this uniform. She hates this job. She hates the smells and the noise. Most of all she hates the guys in the back. They are always screwing up her orders and causing her to lose tips. Tips are what she lives
