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Maybe blogging isn’t dead. At least, not yet.
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Autumn was once my favorite season. The leaves, the weather, the holidays, the food… I loved it all. It was a time of year that encouraged slowing down, getting cozy, and indulging your nostalgia– every introvert’s dream! But lately, autumn feels less cozy and more competitive. Instead of slowing down, everything is speeding up. The…
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I sometimes wonder who I would be, if my life had taken a different path. Part of my ponder comes from a common webcomic plot. I have an unhealthy addiction to Webcomics. I’ll be the first to admit that they are often poorly written, full of plot-holes, and rely heavily on tropes. One of the…
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I keep expecting the realization to hit that I’m married. By Utah standards, I am a geriatric bride. In a state famous for women getting their MRS before their BS, waiting until your 30s for your first marriage is close to criminal. For over a century, the LDS church has held a strong cultural majority…
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Spring is my season of loss. Almost every loved one I’ve lost, left in the spring. Whether it’s from death, breakups, and moving away, March through May are the months I mourn. It would be easy to hate the season where I’ve experienced the most pain, but I don’t. I’ve come to learn that there’s…
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I have two nieces who are navigating the complexities of highschool. Most of us remember our teenage years as being some of the best and worst years of our lives. Hormones are raging, classes become more difficult, relationships become more complex, and adults put higher expectations on you. All of this happening before your brain…
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I have a coworker who like to share obscure websites Useless, fun, and entertaining corners of the web, all but forgotten in the algorithm age. They’re little tastes of what the internet used to be, before it was monopolized by Google and polorized by social media. Glimpes of what the internet could be again, if…
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I finished the first draft of my first novel. It’s been a project I’ve started, stopped, and restarted several times over the last decade. Despite loving the story more than ever, I found it harder and harder to find the energy and motivation to finish the story. But at 8:30pm on December 31st, I finished…
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This month has been unseasonably warm. Usually by mid-December we’ve had a few snowfalls. Frost coats the car windshields each morning and temperatures drop below freezing until the end of March. But we’ve been enjoying lovely September weather this Christmas. I didn’t have much experience with the cold growing up. Living in the Texas coastal…
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I could worry less. I feel that’s the case for most people right now. Even people without pre-existing anxiety disorders are gripped by constant stress and concern: “How is the economy doing?” “Is AI going to take my job?” “What if I get laid off?” “Is the United States still a safe place for me…
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I adopted my pet when I was 24. We always had family pets growing up, but Aspasia is the first pet I can truly call mine. She came into my life when I was at my lowest, when my depression was evolving into a mixed-manic episode that would push me past the edge of sanity.…
Ashley Mae West 