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Guest Post: Welcome Suzanne!

I get excited about all my guest posters, but I am positively giddy today to welcome Suzanne! Awarder of gold-star supernovas! Encourager extraordinaire! And a blogger who I have the honour of calling my…

Happy Things Friday: 1 December

The holiday season is here; I mean, it’s been loitering around for a while now, but today marks the official start of the holiday season in my mind. Bring on the Hallmark, twinkle lights,…

Farwell to NaBloPoMo + Top Five/Bottom Five Christmas Songs

I can’t believe this is the last day of November. Where did the time go?

Thank you to everyone who showed up in my little corner of the internet during NaBloPoMo and thank you…

Blogging, Christmas, Holidays, NaBloPoMo, Top Five/Bottom Five
Nov, 30, 2023
54 Comments

Ask Me (Almost) Anything: Part 2

Another day, another round of AMAA questions. Ditto from yesterday – no theme, just answering questions en masse one person at a time.

FROM JENNY (RUNNERS FLY)

Q. What do you imagine yourself doing when both…

Ask Me (Almost) Anything, Life, NaBloPoMo
Nov, 29, 2023
36 Comments

Ask Me (Almost) Anything: Part 1

Last year when I did my Ask Me (Almost) Anything posts I got all “fancy” and organized questions by theme. This time, I’m throwing caution to the wind and plan to answer questions reader-by-reader….

Ask Me (Almost) Anything, Life, NaBloPoMo, Personality Insights
Nov, 28, 2023
35 Comments

Guest Post: Welcome to Birchie!!

At some point in 2023, I was introduced to Birchie (who blogs at The Birchwood Pie Project; more on the story behind that name here) through Nicole and have been happily reading along ever…