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Writer's Wednesday: Thinking
What are you thinking?Here's one that I am still yet to master. My thoughts. What have thoughts to do with writing, you ask? Everything.I 100% believe that thoughts are a big indicator of future...
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One more
There we were. The four of us. Two boys, my miracles and my husband, also a miracle.Life is never perfect, but sometimes it reaches that balancing point where you swear that if you could only hold your...
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Article 9
The Art of Wearing Gumboots in 2016Here's to those people who wear gumboots. Yes, you read that right. Gumboots. As in those rubber things that make your feet big and your steps dint the ground where...
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There is Morning
(photography by Tabitha Bird. Taken rural Australia, 1 1/2 hours out of the city of Brisbane)No matter what went on in the darkness of past, if you nightmare or daydream, if wisdom says you should...
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Can I Decide Not To?
Deciding not to is akin to the most courageous. Deciding not to is where those who dare tred daily.And I wonder..Can I decide not to?Can I decide not to be small? Not to be what I think others want to...
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When a writer cannot ballet.
Don't laugh. But ballet scares me. True.This Thursday night for the first time I took an adult ballet class at our local ballet school. And I discovered something. I cannot ballet. Nope. Not at all. My...
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You're Enough
“We can’t hate ourselves into a version of ourselves we can love.” ~Lori DescheneYou are enough. All of you. The parts you like. The parts you don't. The gifts you have. Those you never will. When...
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Edit
Edit.To take away.That's a truly terrify, courageous act.Before I can walk a minute into the future I have to decide what's coming with me.Ever looked at a blank page? I mean, really looked? It's...
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Happy Dance
It's always wonderful to be encouraged. I received a happy dance worthy email a few days ago and wanted to share with you all. The editor of Mused, an online literary publication sent me this:"Thank...
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Exciting news
So. It's been a very big month for me. I entered a writing comp in the USA called #P2p16 or Ptich to Piblication 2016. I had to pitch my book and send the first five pages of the manuscript to...
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For those who might be interested, my poetry entitled I AM FROM has been published in the Bella Online Literary Review~ March/ Spring issue...
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She's One.
You are ONE today. So far you've come. So far to go.My wish for your life is simple. But also complex. For I wish that you would always be you.May you always stay strong in who you are. May you always...
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What it means to fly.
I have wings.They wrap around me. Around my tired soul. Around all the dreams that haven't yet come to pass and the promises of things still so far away that they are nothing more than whispers.I have...
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New Year. New Word.
Beginnings fade. New Year's resolutions are stuck in those faded beginnings and by February those glittery resolutions are tin like and hollow. What I do like are words. They endure past January and I...
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Begin Again.
He is everything. He is every good thing in my world. He is also deepest sadness. Not because of him, but because he came with story. Words. He couldn't even speak when we opened our family to take...
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Beautiful and Necessary Books Project
Many of you know that I am an avid reader. Seriously. In terms of needs, after breathing and food it's books. As both a reader and writer I'm often asked, "So, what are you reading?" And because I'm...
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It's a Long Way to THE CALL.
It's a long way. You know?She was four. Alone. And crying about the twisted sheets in her nightmares.She was fifteen. Alone. And raging because she could never keep the bruises away from her mother's...
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Dream Chasers at Duck Junction
If your new to my blog then welcome! Here on my 'Dream Chasers' posts I am passionate about supporting and nurturing the passions and dreams of others. Today we welcome a new local Boonah business...
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And THE WINNER IS...
The winner of the $20 gift voucher to spend at...is..... (drum roll)JODIE DORT!!!!Yay, Jodie! I will be in touch shortly.Thank you to everyone who entered! And a massive thank you to all those who I...
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Story Tree Giveaway
This year has been exceptionally good to me as a writer. God has indeed been good.I am sitting on some MASSIVE news that I cannot yet share, but to celebrate and give thanks...I am giving away a $50...
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And The Winner is....
Massive thanks to all those who entered the draw for the Story Tree gift voucher. I wrote down all names on little bits of paper, screwed the paper up and put them into a hat. My husband drew one out...
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New Year. New Word. 2018
Each year I select a word (or phrase) to guide me:In 2017 my word was RELENTLESSAnd in my blog post from this time last year I wrote:"Not relentless as in cruel, uncaring or harsh.But, relentless in...
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The skin I am in.
Hey everyone. So, I just wanted to share something that has been making a big difference in my life recently. Many of you know that I was abused as a child. The result of that in adult life, (among...
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Ink Bird
New Ink and new horizons.While I can't yet say all that this tattoo commemorates for me, there's a little bird I'd love to tell you about.Story time. Gather blankets and tea if you will. Long ago,...
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Expect The Sea Water
(photobucket.com) I breathe in the air out the air in slower out stiller than dew on morning grassbreathe I whisperbreathe my lungs are shaky things on rickety legs. I breathe in the air out the air in...
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