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2014 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 5,500 times in 2014. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 5 trips to carry that many people. Click here to…
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2014 in Film: My View
I’ll admit it, our household is all about stories. We read them, watch them, occasionally write them, dream up really funny ones, play games built around them…. and go see them on the big screen. I don’t know how The Man lucked out to get a wife as awesome as me, who loves action movies,…
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The Ways Women’s Magazines Convinced Me I Must Earn My (Inherent) Worth | Thought Catalog
The problem is that you’re not supposed to linger in a perpetual state of “reaching for something more.” You don’t divide your life between “periods in which you are transforming” and “periods in which you are living.” There is healing and experiencing, there is rest and adventure, but there is no behind the scenes, there…
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Link: Long-Range Writing (Sometimes A Light)
“People—particularly women—need to hear that you can start late.” ~Ursula LeGuin My friend Hannah wrote a great post on her blog about the long-range view of being a writer, She’s wrangling several kids, the full-time job of being a pastor’s wife, and a budding writing career. So yeah, I’m sure it gets discouraging. You can…

