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5 Quotes from the Book That I Hope Are In the Wicked Movie

I’d never gone to see Wicked the Musical because I wanted to read the book first. But I never read the book because I didn’t want to taint my happy childhood memories of The Wizard of Oz. However, the second I saw the trailer for Wicked the movie, I knewContinue Reading

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Laughter Is The Best Medicine Finalist

Normally, medicine is the last thing I want to be prescribed. However, laughter really is the best medicine, and that’s a prescription I never balk at. But in a twist, I never saw coming, I may be the one doing the prescribing! This weekend I was thrilled to get anContinue Reading

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Trying to Navigate a Sea of Stress Amid Waves of Uncertainty

At this point, I’m just trying to survive 2024. It’s been a real stress-inducing pisser, even though I had such high hopes for this year. But why did I have such high hopes? I can’t even remember. Maybe it was because I was no longer depressed and languishing like IContinue Reading

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Why This is the Best Library Card I’ve Ever Had

I remember the thrill of getting my very first library card. Shockingly, I don’t remember how old I was, though. What age did they deem acceptable to let kids check out books by themselves back in the 70s? Six? Eight? I’d be shocked if I was as old as 10.Continue Reading

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Olympic Mascots: Did you know these 12 fun facts?

On Haunt Jaunts I wrote: “Wait. There have been alien and Sasquatch Olympic mascots?” after a CNN headline about “fun or frightening” mascots caught my eye. Then a certain sentence in the article sent me tumbling down the rabbit hole: “Over the decades, the world has welcomed snowmen, sasquatches, cowboy-hat-wearingContinue Reading

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You Say “Crazy Cat Ladies” and “Childless” Like It’s a Bad Thing

I’m loving all the controversy that reporters stirred up recently when they resurfaced comments J.D. Vance made about crazy childless cat ladies. But Vance isn’t the only one. A recent HuffPost article also outed Blake Masters, an Arizona Republican congressional candidate, for similar comments. A lot of celebs have weighedContinue Reading

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The “Democratic” VP Pick That would Destroy Trump/Vance

As part of my commitment to turning over a new leaf, I’ve tried to refrain from commenting on politics, mass shootings, etc the past year. Phew. That has not been easy. But I just remind myself of a saying a friend once told me, “Opinions are like assholes. Everyone hasContinue Reading

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How do authors display books in a gallery on WordPress?

My Books page used to be a mess. Not just a mess. A hot one. Flaming hot. It was an embarrassment. Especially when I realized, “Oh no! I forgot Amazon stopped serving linked images and went to links only.” A realization I only made recently, like this week. It allContinue Reading

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Google AI Search: The death of SEO? (and content creators?)

Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to mourn the death of SEO, murdered by Google AI Search… If you’ve Googled anything lately, you may have noticed Google has integrated AI into their search results now. Within the last week or two, I received a “warning” email about the imminentContinue Reading

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The Super Sad Reason I Really Wanted to Become a Writer

“Why did you want to become a writer?” It’s a common question writers get. Not that I’ve been asked it in a while by someone else, but I did recently ask it of myself. It made me think about what I used to tell people who asked. “Because ever since IContinue Reading

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