Year: 2023
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RV Stop #1: Sebago Lake, Maine.
Hi! Here is a brief overview of our stay at Sebago Lake State Park Campground. (I’m tired, yo.) . . . My dear brother-and sister-in-law joined us (from Denver) for the first leg of our RV adventure. We got the fridge fully stocked with tasty snacks and beers—we obviously stopped at Tree House Brewing on…
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Raindrops & Cozy Socks.
It’s been too long, Dear Reader. Too, too long. . . . Hello! And greetings from our sweet-baby RV. I literally have over 20 blogs patiently waiting in “Draft” purgatory, but rather than use the brain power to revise, edit, and post one of those, I decided to start fresh. (It may be what I…
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The Pre-Birthday Girl Plans.
My 36th Birthday is just around the corner. And I plan on living it up, yo. It’s a designated time to celebrate this little life o’ mine. So here are a few ways I plan to seize the day. . . . SnapDragon’s Simple-Yet-Cool Birthday Plans: 1. A New Do. I need a quality shampooing,…
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Terra.
A Poem. . . . maybe we really are all connected: these reaching, yearning branches; these muddy fingernails and earth-worn skin; these resilient bones. the wind: it is here. then it is gone, then here again. maybe the dust within us never truly vanishes. maybe we continually float on. oh, terra. i love you. .…
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A Simple Thank You.
Because who doesn’t want to feel appreciated? . . . I read Gretchen Rubin’s The Happiness Project several years ago, during an extremely challenging year of teaching high school English. It was exactly what a burned-out, weary soul like me needed at the time. And, it’s pretty remarkable how many times I think of it;…
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Just a Little Brain Dump.
dkdkwnekdksdhfewiodndksosjiowek. . . . I just spent about twenty minutes mapping out the next six years of our lives, all by writing on a leftover notebook from my professional past. In pure academic fashion, I divided each year into “Spring” and “Fall”. (My professor husband would appreciate this, I’m sure.) Anyway, I estimated when each…
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Ch-ch-ch-changes.
An attitude adjustment. . . . Hi there. It’s SnapDragon. Remember me? January has almost passed us by, and I feel especially unfulfilled as an artist. I feel . . . heavy, even though I’ve lost all the baby weight. I feel . . . an odd mix of mindfulness and dissatisfaction at all that…
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Little Boxes.
Happy New Year, Dear Reader. . . . It’s rather unlike me, to have waited this long for a New Year’s post. You know as well as I do how much I love a fresh start. Yet here I am, on the 19th day of 2023, typing a blog post with both thumbs on my…
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