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In which I try to describe Love

February 1, 2021

A redditor on r/love asked what romantic love felt like.Here is my best attempt to put the feeling into words.I’m curious to hear your opinions of how I did. As to the sensation of being in love? Well, It’s a bit like describing color to a blind person. But I will try. Have you ever…

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What Made Me Smile This Week (July 22 – 28): I am baaaaack!!!!

August 4, 2019

What Made Me Smile This Week (July 22 – 28): I am baaaaack!!!! Anyone who has ever taken any level of schooling seriously knows one thing: absences stink! Not only do you miss out on the lecture, you still have to do all of the makeup work. Unfortunately, when you’re an adult, there is no…

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What Made Me Smile This Week (June 3 – 9): New Beginnings and Bittersweet Endings

July 11, 2019

Sometimes, fate has a strange symmetry to it. Who would have guessed that I would be celebrating a birthday and funeral in the same week? It’s at times like these that I start taking stock of my life and wondering both where it will go and what I have accomplished so far. I haven’t done…

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What Made Me Smile This Week (May 27 – June 2): Clouds and Silver Linings

June 3, 2019

Ever since I have started this project, I have been worried about one thing: what will happen to it if I can’t find something to smile about for some days of the week? I almost found out this week – but lo and behold, I made the important discovery that there is something to smile…

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What Made Me Smile This Week (May 20 – 26): As Life’s Wheels Turn

May 28, 2019

This week may turn out to be life changing! I’ll save you the suspense just skip to tuesday! Monday, May 20, 2019 I spent most of today genuinely believing I had lost my house keys, so was a relief that I finally found them later today. It caused me a great deal of consternation earlier,…

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What Made Me Smile This Week (May 13 – 19): “Welcome to the Grid, Program”

May 21, 2019

Here it is! The busy week that has gotten my scheduling into a Gordian knot! I enjoy busy weeks when they happen, but to have two in a row is extraordinarily uncommon for me. That is to say, I’m not used to it. Normally, I have weeks of extreme con followed by short punctuated bursts…

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What Made Me Smile This Week (May 6 – 12): Double Mother’s Day Surprise

May 19, 2019

I’ve noticed a pattern in life recently where I will have several weeks in which nothing is happening in a week or two where everything happens all at once. This is definitely a week to remember. I’m sorry this episode is almost a full week late by now, but in my defense these last two…

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Short Blog Update

May 13, 2019

Hello dear readers! This was supposed to be a Weekly Smiles post, but as you can see…its not. This week has been a fairly busy week. I wanted to give my regular readers a quick note of thanks for showing up. Tomorrow friends, I promise, it’s coming. I’m also working on a longer post on…

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What Made Me Smile This Week (April 29 – May 5): Fun, Friends, and Christmas Come Early

May 6, 2019

There is always a certain indescribable thrill about getting new packages in the mail. Keeping that in mind, you will understand why I was utterly jubilant this week when I (sort of) received two in the mail. Lucky me! More importantly, I got to meet up with an old friend this week. An afternoon together…

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What Made Me Smile This Week (April 22 – 28): The Second Home Homecoming

April 30, 2019

So, I’ve been doing weekly smiles for a while now. Overall, I am fairly happy with the result. I came to this project with two goals in mind: first, I wanted to practice learning to be happy. Second, I wanted to establish a writing habit. The first goal has shown me something. I don’t have…

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