Category Archives: Reflection

Great Expectations: 365 books a year

I would kind of love it if I could do absolutely nothing for 16 hours per day except read books, and write about how I feel about them. I could open a book at nine in the morning (that’s right, SO not a morning person), and avoid closing it (not literally, but you know) until […]
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Poetry, Music and my Brain

One of my appointment podcasts is Scriptnotes (a podcast about screenwriting and things interesting to screenwriters).  It’s very entertaining and has a lot of great insight into not only screenwriting, but writing in general. In a November episode, co-host Craig Maizin made an observation about poetry I’ve probably heard before, but never so bluntly, and […]
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The “Who” and The “Why” of it

I’ve always loved to read. When I was seven years old, my parents encouraged me to read bigger and more grown up books, like Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House collection, which I completed with enthusiasm. I was never in doubt about my reading skills, because I always had people in my life who reminded me […]
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And the downfall is…

For the very first time, I am publishing a post based on an external prompt. The idea, can’t get it out of my head, asks what we are obsessed with these days. So, what is my current weakness? What am I constantly thinking about, working on, and striving to merit making additions to? Goodreads is the […]
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Where I go, after reading Misconception by Paul and Shannon Morell

Recently, I read Misconception by Paul Morell, the shocking true story of a cryogenically frozen embryo that was accidentally thawed and implanted into the womb of a genetically unrelated woman, who then carried the baby to term before handing the new life over to the Morells, the baby’s genetic mother and father. Shannon Morell had […]
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