Eight Below: Winter Movie Recommendation

Eight Below is an exciting, heart-warming movie loosely based on a true Antarctic tale. The story follows Jerry Shepherd (Paul Walker) as he tries desperately to get back to Antarctica so he can rescue his eight sled dogs who were abandoned in an eme...

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Jan 23, 2026
Paperback Writer: A Lesson from the Beatles

It’s a thousand pages, give or take a few I’ll be writing more in a week or two I can make it longer if you like the style I can change it ‘round and I want to be a paperback writer. Paperback writer."      These few lines in the Beatles’ “Paperback...

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Jan 09, 2026
My Top Ten Movies of 2025

It's hard to believe it's been exactly a year since I published "My Top Ten Movies of 2024" . I watched a lot of movies this year. I watched movies like Frozen  that, yes, I had never seen before, and How to Train your Dragon: Live Action  that was t...

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Jan 02, 2026
Winter Wonders: A Christmas Blog Tag

Similar to other seasonal posts, I have another blog tag challenge for this winter/Christmas time! I'm super excited to share this, and I hope you enjoy reading it just as much as I enjoyed thinking about the answers and filling them out. You can rea...

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Dec 29, 2025
A Pioneer Story: By an 8-Year-Old Me

Recently, (and I hope to your great delight) I read a few of my very oldest stories to my siblings. I say stories because in an hour or less, there was time for a great many of them. A full story was about 800 words (usually fewer)---half of what I...

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Dec 19, 2025
The Odyssey and The Dawn Treader

Today, I'm excited to welcome a fellow young writer to my blog! When Christopher approached me about writing this article, following the publication of my Beowulf in the Lord of the Rings , I was happy to accept. The article was enlightening, and I...

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Dec 12, 2025
A Thanksgiving Post (feat. Carolyn Joy's Poetry)

Today, I'm very happy to be featuring a poem by a fellow blogger (who also happens to be my aunt!) I've been wanting to do a Thanksgiving post, but search my brain as I might, I couldn't think of anything. Then, when Carolyn Joy posted this poem the...

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Nov 26, 2025
Should you Like your Past Work?

Quite recently, I have opened up my old notebooks and begun reliving the stories that haunted my life four years ago. I was an aspiring author (you can read about how I started writing here ), and I was in that infamous stage of "You don't know you d...

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Nov 14, 2025