Yes...that was a mistake

If you clicked on my most recent email hoping that I was about to share a second list of Top Ten Movies of 2025, you were probably sadly mistaken. I forgot to change my subject line from last week! This week's was supposed to be "Paperback Writer: A...

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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
Happy January! 🌨️

I know I've been in your inbox a fair amount the last couple days...but it's time for my monthly update! I hope you'll enjoy reading about what I've been up to. Keep your eyes out tomorrow! I'm publishing my Top Ten Movies of 2025 post!

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Jan 01, 2026
Need help commenting?? 🧐

Wix has changed things up over the last few months...There used to be a little log in button under the comment box on my posts, but the Wix website decided to get rid of that. Now, you can't sign in if you comment, you can only insert your name and e...

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Dec 31, 2025
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
Watercolour Recommendations for Beginners

There was a time not so long ago when most anyone (especially girls) could do art. The only known portrait of Jane Austen was painted by her own sister, an artist of no great consequence, but an artist nonetheless. Now, because life is so busy, very...

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Nov 07, 2025
Autumn on My Mountain

I wish I could say this was from my mountain (I took it not far away though!) and it fits in spirit with the post. :D I love autumns on my mountain. I love the walks, scuffing among the leaves. I love the curled leaves all about the dying g...

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Oct 31, 2025