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Wrapping Up Winter Ishness
Wrapping Up Winter Ishness

I’m feeling highly nostalgic lately…

But I think “ishness” just is such a lovely word that does such a great job of conveying all the implied updates, adventures, and episodes of life. Tips hat to Deborah for starting the trend.

Anyway… 2024.

It’s been… a whirlwind, a blur, a kick in the teeth? I’m not even sure how to describe or define how the first three months of this year have gone. But there’s definitely been a lot happening.

Before we get too far into the update however, I have three announcements!

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Adventures and Episodes: Summer 2023 Edition
Adventures and Episodes: Summer 2023 Edition

“In sweet summertime…”

Ahhh, summer. For many, this is a time of refreshment, of relaxation, of vacation, of taking time away.

For others it’s a time of busy-ness, of frantically-paced rushing about to get all the fun things accomplished.

For some of my family members, it’s the most stressful time of year at their jobs.

For me, it’s kind of a combination. I want to spend summer at the lake, just swimming, relaxing, and soaking it all in. But as my kids get older, I am finding it harder and harder not to fill up the summer months with activities. Good activities. Fun activities… but time-consuming activities all the same.

All in all, it’s been a great summer so far, so let’s dive in and see what’s been going on, shall we?

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January/February Ishness 2023
January/February Ishness 2023

Yes, I know I rebranded these posts “Adventures and Episodes” a while back. But I’ve been feeling nostalgic lately, and kind of missing the “good old days” of blogging. There was a community of us back there a few years ago, and while it’s gotten a little swallowed up by the other varieties of social media and gnat-like attention spans… I still enjoy the blogosphere. And I miss what it used to be.

And among those things I miss are the tags and collaborative sort of nature of posts. Like “Ishness.”

So here I am, throwing back a few years, climbing up into the attic, and rubbing the dust off of something that I always loved. And maybe it’s still shiny and precious under there, like so many things tend to be. I hope so.

And I’m taking this moment to go back to good, old-fashioned blogging.

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FallFicFrenzy + Know the Novel Part 2
FallFicFrenzy + Know the Novel Part 2

November, my favorite month of the year!

I might be slightly biased, as this is my birthday month… but hey, as Ken Ham says, “Everybody is biased. It’s just a question of which is the best bias to be biased with anyway?”

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So, I’ve been having a blast participating in Christine Smith’s Know the Novel and Fall Fic Frenzy over the past several weeks.

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