January 2026
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My daughter is a huge fan of the Wings of Fire series by Tui T. Sutherland. At first she was only able to get her hands on one novel every few months or so, but as soon as she got her hands on the rest of the books that were available up to that point,…
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I tried a new-to-me fruit on January 25, 2025. Why has it taken me so long to write about it? Well, as I mentioned in my post about hanging a pegboard in my art room, at the time I didn’t think the result of my attempt was good enough. The fruit wasn’t exotic enough, it…
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Apparently, I had some grandiose ideas about what completing a lot of my Forty Before Forty goals would look like. With January already halfway behind me, my chronic illnesses keeping my health in flux, and our financial situation growing more dire by the day, I had to take a step back and reevaluate how rigid…
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I started a diamond painting project with my daughter back in 2022, as something to do together during our weekly mother-daughter chats. All of the diamond paintings I had worked on outside of this one were gifts, so this was the first I was doing for myself. I guess therein lies the lack of motivation…