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The Time Machine: Coffee Houses

If you’re here on my blog, you probably love a coffee shop. (If you’re a tea-only person and prefer the tea house, I have a post for you, too) How many of you have pitched a laptop or tablet at a rickety table with a hard wooden chair, listened idly to the hum of chatter, the clinking of ceramic, and the growl of the milk steamer? Bang, bang, bang, goes the barista, before locking fresh espresso…

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The Storybook: Klio and Euterpe

The Muses So, every so often (usually when Facebook won’t let me share posts to my author page), I poll the Misfits about the kind of posts they’d like to see me write about. One of the most popular ideas was mythology related to gods and spirits ruling over the domain of creativity. So, who better to start with than the actual Muses? *sigh* Full disclosure, I’m not an ancient historian or a…

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The Writing Desk: Time Blocks

Every year, I poll the Misfits, and every year they vote ‘time management’ as the topic they most want advice on. I can relate, I also struggle with it. But I do have some tricks, and maybe this one will help you. Time Blocks These three techniques are simultaneously totally different, and basically the same. They’re really all about concentrating your focus on one thing at a time. Time blocks…

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Hedre by popular demand, yet another batch of suggestions of time management! This year, we're talking about time blocks- ways to organise your writing and fit it into your busy schedule. Watch it on YouTube at https://youtu.be/34UKA8N0ybE and join my subscription sites 😜 for even more exclusives!

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Sunday Sips- I'm kind of obsessed with the Lavender Latte from Starbucks, these days. What are you drinking?

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Familiar Friday from a few weeks ago and a routine check-up. She very much did not want to talk to me😅

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#SundaySips- having some sweet fruit tea with my mum, Chinese style! This one is Pink Lady, by Music City Tea in Murray, TN. What are you guys having, today?

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Familiar Friday! No, I didn't forget, I was at jury duty and got called immediately lol. But I got out early, so I'm done for a year! . Anyway, enjoy this very early morning pic of Artemisia watching Bridgerton with me 🥰 (Ignore the mess, I'm renovating)

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It's Familiar Friday, and yesterday was Artemisia's Gotcha Day! Everyone, say hi!🐈‍⬛

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The Time Machine: Gardens, Part 3-Capability Brown

Ordinarily, I don’t like to do too many similar posts in a row, and I know I’m posting a biography directly following a double biography, but I have to strike while the iron is hot. I’ve just arrived home from a trip to the UK, where I visited one of his gardens, so it’s relevant. Plus, what better time to talk about gardens than the spring? Lancelot Brown was born on August 30, 1716, in…

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This story has always stuck with me too

I keep hate-reading plague literature from the medieval era, but as depressed as it makes me there is always one historical tidbit that makes me feel a little bittersweet and I like to revisit it. That’s the story of the village of Eyam.

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ian mckellen directed these movies actually

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Honey I Shrunk La France

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nimble, a border collie-papillon mix, wins the 12” class in the 2024 masters agility championship. the first time a mixed breed has won at westminster ever.

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The real problem with books-turned-movies isn’t “omg they didn’t include every single word in the book” it’s “omg they completely overlooked the main theme, threw out any significant allegories, took away all the emotional pull, an turned it into a boring action movie with a love triangle in it”