Category: True Confessions

Exploring Relationships, Love, and Life

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Goals and Goal Failure

Since it’s now halfway through the year, I always like to sit back and check in to see where I’m at with my goals and figure out what I need to improve on. With the debacle of May behind me, I can finally start looking ahead to what I’m trying to accomplish instead of trying…
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Furbabies

Benji is my dog. He’s a labradoodle and weighs almost 100 pounds. He never fails to make me smile with his happy-go-lucky attitude and expressive eyes. Actually, his eyebrows do most of the talking, but I digress before I wax poetically about him. Now you might think I’m a dog person or something like that.…
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What Means Summer to You?

What are the things that make you feel like Summer? Probably the first thing that makes me think of Summer is Mint Tea. My Great- Grandmother lived in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. When I was with Dad in nearby York County, we would visit my great-grandparents reasonably often, and my grandmother would always make fresh mint…
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Setbacks

I’m going to share something very personal this week. It’s about suffering setbacks. Recently this happened to me in a very profound way. It affected everything in my life. The last week of April was exciting, I took my computer to my son, and we replaced the motherboard, processor, RAM, and graphics card. We replaced…
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The Perks of Writing

A friend recently asked me what writing has done for me. I was momentarily at a loss on how to answer because it’s done many things for me. Back 7 years ago when I jumped on the crazy fan-fiction train. I spent much of my time reading fan-fiction, high fantasy, and romance novels with a…
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What means Spring to You?

What makes you think of Spring?I know it is almost Spring in Maine. Most people think of Spring like this… But here in Maine, we have five seasons. That is not a typo. There is nothing wrong with my counting. It’s just that after Winter and before Spring, we have another season known as Mud.…
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What’s on my to-read Book Shelf?

As you can see from the picture above, I have quite a few books on my reading list. Some I want to reread, others I’ve never read. I can’t wait to reread the Modesitt series along with the new ones. That I didn’t have. A few from the pile are books that were in Miss…
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Books Versus Movies

I have read Dune a few times since I was an angsty teen. With each reading as I’ve matured I found something new. Now I will be the first person to admit that I don’t watch movies. I need to be actively participating in things and I feel that while many others love the idea…
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Comedy in Writing – Expectation Versus Reality

I gave myself a simple instruction for this post. Write an expectation v.s. reality. Honestly, what came to mind was the irony of actually writing sex scenes. How people think writers write sex scenes… Preparing yourself, pep talk, yea, this is gonna be great. My characters are unforgettable. They do amazing things together. It’s gonna…
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New Year, No Resolutions+

It’s New Year, but I have no resolutions. I’ve tried making resolutions in the past, and they seem to fall to the wayside. To be honest, I can be a fantastic procrastinator. Like most people, I tend to put off my more unsavory (who am I kidding) shitty tasks.  I know myself well. I know if I…
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