Category: Confessions of a Writing Freak

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The White Lady of Millinocket

The White Lady of Millinocket is the name given to the apparition many people have claimed to see at the bridge located on Route 11 outside of Millinocket. According to lore, a newlywed couple returning from their honeymoon lost control of their car and ended up crashed on the embankment near the bridge. The couple…
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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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What Can’t You Live Without?

Things I can’t live without, just as the title says. My first thing Coffee, Coffee, and Coffee. Coffee is life. I tend to go with quality over quantity. Reaching for a rich dark French or Italian roast with a two-cup maximum. The second must-have thing would probably be my planner. I tell everyone. “If I…
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Reading Nooks

I love the idea of reading nooks and after looking at a bunch of designs. I realized a few things. A ready nook has to comfortable enough to stay there for a reasonable length of time. I like the idea of books being the main decor (because why call it a reading nook if there…
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Fitness and Lifestyle

How do you stay fit? The short answer was in the past, I beat myself up at the gym and hoped that good genes would take care of the rest. But after injuries, surgeries, and digestive issues, I just stopped. I gave up. It was too hard… That’s the truth. For the last 7 years,…
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Myth or Fact

Here are a few myths that I thought were true. I found out that my “facts” were wrong. I used to joke that one of my dearest friends had the memory of goldfish. I’m not sure how goldfish got a reputation for having bad memories. This myth has been debunked by studies throughout the years. There is…
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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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Libraries

I wanted to do a post about libraries. Having used the services of libraries profusely as a child, I thought a post on beautiful libraries would be fun. However, taking a look at what Google had to say about it, I realized that there are many posts about beautiful libraries. So my writing is taking…
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