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Never Have I Ever…Part 11

Gone hitchhiking. (As a kid, I was definitely in the car when my dad picked up hitchhikers, which wasn’t all that unusual at the time. In university, I worked with someone who hitchhiked the…

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  • Never Have I Ever, Personality Insights, Random
  • Aug, 11, 2025
  • 48 Comments

Still Shining Here, But Adding an Extra Beacon!

The prudent thing would be to take things slowly. Ease into a new idea. Let it marinate.

But instead, I’m sitting outside in my hammock, throwing the ropes off and setting sail. (In other words,…

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  • Blogging, Creativity, Lighthouses
  • Aug, 10, 2025
  • 23 Comments

Happy Things Friday: 8 August

Wowzers. One full week of August is in the rearview mirror. It was another busy one with, as I alluded to yesterday, the typical ups and downs of life. A huge thanks to everyone…

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  • Happy Things Friday
  • Aug, 08, 2025
  • 42 Comments

This is *Not* a Happy Things Post

Lest you think my life is one big Happy Things Friday montage, rest assured — there’s always stuff happening behind the scenes. Some of it’s bloggable, some of it’s…not. (When SHU and I had…

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  • Hard Things, Life
  • Aug, 07, 2025
  • 55 Comments

On My Shelf: Books I Read in July 2025

In recent years, summer months have marked a precipitous drop in my reading activity. Now that the kids are a bit older (and I’m in a reading groove, mostly because of all the wonderful…

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  • Reading
  • Aug, 06, 2025
  • 42 Comments

Oops! I Did It Again (Spelled It Wrong)

I’m a decent speller. (The kids’ spelling, for the record, borders on horrid, and I mostly blame the school-issued Chromebooks and their ever-present autocorrect. But that’s a rant for another day…)

Here are a few…

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  • Habits, Language, Random
  • Aug, 04, 2025
  • 36 Comments

Happy Things Friday: 1 August

It’s official. We’re in the final month of “summer” for our family. Technically, summer stretches well past August, and technically, the kids don’t go back to school until early September. Technicalities aside…August always feels…

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  • Happy Things Friday
  • Aug, 01, 2025
  • 40 Comments
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