Life Update
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What’s New, 2024?
It is 2024, and I am equal parts excited and anxious for what the new year is going to bring. I had actually written – a while back! – a post about what I was hoping to bring to my page in the next year, but if you’ve been following this page, you might have seen me mention that those plans have been shelved indefinitely. Personal and health reasons mean that I do have to put those on hold. Fingers crossed for either the mid-year or 2025! That does not mean that 2024 will not see some new plans and projects and aims to reach! No, no, much like the…
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What’s New In 2022
Has it been a ride to get to 2022 or what? It’s certainly felt like it! There were so many things I had wanted to accomplish in 2021, and while some of them I am working on, many things felt like they had fallen on the wayside. But it is a new year, and a fresh start. As I write this post, I sit in home quarantine at my parents’ place, meeting them after almost two years. My kids – the younger of whom is meeting them for the first time – are asleep, and I can make some headway on one of the things I want to accomplish this…
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blogging break 2021
It is September 2021. You look around you and you realise more than half the year has passed by and you’ve posted one review, completed one book, and been struggling to keep your head afloat while the world struggles around you as well. You started this post in July. I think the first I realised that this was okay was when I read Kate’s blog post How To Overcome Blogging Fatigue. Having a name for what I was feeling made me take a step back and realise, hey, it’s okay to feel burned out despite not having actually done much. The situation we are facing now is mentally and emotionally…