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Can You Read In a Moving Car + 2 More Questions for Readers

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  • Sep 15, 2026
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Apparently, I still haven’t exhausted my supply of questions about how other people read! In the last few months we’ve discussed whether you have to stop at the end of a chapter, when to DNF a book (this post got a lot of comments; it’s a FASCINATING topic), and all sorts of other reading habits….

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I’m Back + What’s “Saving My Life”

Hi! *Waves*

I’m back!

Things feel… a lot better this week! I was in a rough spot when I last posted (all the ongoing things in life, a leaky roof, AND I was smack dab in…

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  • Life, Favourite Things, Random
  • Sep, 14, 2026
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Brain Dump + Blog Break

I’m writing this just before midnight on a Sunday because I can’t get to sleep.

I had a whole week of blog posts scheduled (hooray!), but I’ve moved them all back to drafts and will…

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  • Time Management, Blogging, Hard Things
  • Sep, 07, 2026
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Happy Things Friday: 4 September

This week—*waves hands around at the literal mess of laundry, bobby pins, safety pins, and nail polish bottles scattered all over the dining room table, along with the grass clippings tracked hither and yon…

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  • Life
  • Sep, 04, 2026
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On My Shelf: Books Read August 2026

After a fiction heavy July, I unintentionally turned the tables and read predominantly non-fiction in August. That said, I feel like reading an epic tome like Gone With the Wind is a bit like…

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  • Reading
  • Sep, 03, 2026
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Happy Things… Wednesday?

I had this post ready to go live on Friday morning and then life happened and I posted an update from… the ER instead of a Happy Things Friday post.

But all the things I…

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  • Happy Things Friday
  • Sep, 02, 2026
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Cardiff Catchall: Cardiff Castle, Castle Arcade + Welsh Food

This is the last set of pictures from our time in Cardiff. More dramatically, this is my very last summary of adventures FROM THE ENTIRE TRIP. (I’m sure I’ll do a few more…

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  • Travel, Euro Adventure, United Kingdom
  • Sep, 01, 2026
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