Year: 2023
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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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