So I've been trying to make my website more accessible, and I'm slowly adding image descriptions to the alt tags in all the images. But when I saw my last blog post was called “Six Things I Learned in 2021,"…
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Dec 31 2021
Six things I learned in 2021
It’s the end of another year. Typically, around this time, I reflect on the previous year and set intentions for the upcoming year. I told myself I should do that today, but I really wasn’t feeling it. Last year, at…
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Oct 8 2021
An Autumn Update
Hey everyone! It's been a long time since I've written anything here, but things have been going really well for me!
I got a job writing web content for AT&T, which I absolutely love. And it's interesting how…
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Apr 19 2021
Career, Identity, and Shifts in Perspective
I remember when my mom took me to see The Nutcracker when I was five years old. I thought it was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen, and from that moment on, I knew the purpose of my…
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Mar 30 2021
The Music Inside You Never Dies: My journey as a musician and a singer
This is the updated version of a post I initially posted in Find Creative Expression.
My first memory of a piece of art moving me is The Nutcracker. My mom took me to see it when I…
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Mar 23 2021
Poetry Books Released Today!
My poetry books are out today!
You can download Coiled and Swallowed, Driving Downtown to the Show, Slip Away, or a bundle of all three ebooks on all major retailers. (They may not be up…
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Feb 23 2021
Coiled and Swallowed, Driving Downtown to the Show, and Slip Away
I'd like to announce that on March 23, 2021, I will be releasing Slip Away, my new book of poems.
At the same time, I will also be re-releasing my book of poems, Coiled and Swallowed (2010) as…
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Dec 31 2020
Thank you for making my 2020 better
Well, it's that time again. The last day of the year.
In normal times, I love New Year's Eve. I love reflecting back over the previous year and looking forward to the new one. But if 2020 was…
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Nov 30 2020
There is no right way to be a writer
Well, it's the last day of November, which means lots of people are celebrating winning National Novel Writing Month - writing 50,000 words in 30 days. To all of those writers, I'd like to say congratulations!
I started…
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Nov 9 2020
The First Day of My New Life
Anything could happen at any moment. You could get laid off from the job you thought you could count on, you could go on a date with a stranger who you end up falling in love with, you could get…
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Sep 4 2020
Book Lovers Unite for World Suicide Prevention Day 2020
September 10th is World Suicide Prevention Day. Authors, readers, and bloggers are uniting again his year to fight stigma, spread mental health awareness, and support the prevention of suicide. To encourage participation, we're giving away a $50 Amazon gift card…
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Aug 28 2020
The Shadow Vampires Trilogy
In February of 2019, I published Into the Shadows, the first book in The Shadow Vampires Trilogy. Then my life blew up when I was in the middle of writing the second book. I was finally able to get…
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