Category: Thoughts

You Are Who You Remind Yourself You Are

Remind yourself of who you are, and that is who you will be no matter the circumstances. On my first post of 2016, Rabia Gale commented: “I enter 2016 with a mixture of excitement and trepidation. Mostly excitement, though touched with doubt’s ghostly fingers. I know my own mindset is often my worst enemy. Do you have any tips or techniques for sustaining your resolve through the long months?” The first thing I have to say on that is that

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Your Life’s Purpose and Why Striving to Discover it Doesn’t Work

I discovered my life’s purpose yesterday while putting away clean dishes.* (*If you’re on my email list, this will seem a suspiciously familiar sentence, because it is. I decided to share what I wrote in this week’s email here on the blog as well.) Which sounds so casual and out of the blue, but it was only the end in what’s been a very long process. It’s taken me years trying to figure this out, years of introspection, trying new

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Book (Launch Day for The Illuminated Heart!)

Well, this is it. Today is the day that The Illuminated Heart officially goes live. I was going to talk about how I wrote it (short story: In a very intense two weeks during Camp NaNo and after finals), how awesome my editor was, and how long it took me to finally make the paperback (months. Literal months). I was going to tell you some of the great reviews the ebook’s gotten and show off what the paperback has that the

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Taking Music Theory Was an Act of Patience

During this post, keep this thought in mind: Gardening is an act of patience. The gardener may work hard to plant, water, and weed so that flowers may come and the fruit may ripen, but they do not decide when this will happen. The garden does. For three weeks in July, I took a music theory course. Apparently, the way seemed to be feeling about it as it went was somewhat inconsistent across internet platforms. Let me put the record

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Grown-Ups Are No Longer Superheroes

“Because at that time it seemed to me that adults had a sort of almighty power, I kept telling myself that when I was grown up I would certainly destroy this evil.” ~Ludwik Zamenhof Sometimes, you come across a quote that doesn’t just tug at your heartstrings. It takes up residence, becoming a player of their melody. Ludwik Zamenhof, known for his creation of the language Esperanto, grew up witnessing strife between people who spoke different languages. Understandably, he hated

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Erica's Story (WIP title) | The Books of Bílo (WIP title) #1
First draft 29%
Hunter and Prey | White Changeling #3
First draft 100%

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Hidden in Sealskin
The Illuminated Heart
Dreaming of Her and Other Stories
The Kitten Psychologist Tries to Be Patient Through Email
The Tree Remembers
Like Mist Over the Eyes
The Kitten Psychologist Broaches the Topic of Economics
The Kitten Psychologist
Plunged Ashore
The Kitten Psychologist Versus The Kitten's Owners