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• Kelly Clarkson Wrote a Song About This Once.

  

  We Heart ItMy favorite CD of Kelly Clarkson’s has always been Breakaway. Not only do I love the majority of her songs on that album, but I find most of them... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2013 SELF EXPRESSION

• Links & Drinks: Fun Nail Decals, Pinterest Finds, and How to Get Along with...

  

  Hi all! I hope everyone has had a wonderful week! We thought we might get some snow in South Carolina last night, but that was a bust. Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2013 SELF EXPRESSION

• Creative Encounters: Conversations with Kristen Curator

  

  Today I have a lady who not only writes an awesome blog, but who also has an interesting job that I would love to do if my state’s museum actually in need of... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2013 SELF EXPRESSION

• Literary Junkies: Favorite Books, Characters We Wish We Were, Books We CAN Put...

  

  A few months ago, I told Lesley of By The Porch Light that I would participate in her new link-up, Literary Junkies, because I love books, and while I don’t... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2013 SELF EXPRESSION

• Because When It Comes to Complicated, Technical Blog Stuff, I Am Not an...

  I’m going through this weird phase where I don’t like my blog design… AGAIN. This happens every so often after I come up with a compromise on its appearance by... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2013 SELF EXPRESSION

• Links & Drinks: Pens, Letters, and The Best Romantic Comedy Ever

  

  Hello my lovely readers,I hope everyone has had a wonderful week, and if it’s been more of a downer for you, I’m praying that you’ll get to relax the weekend an... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2013 SELF EXPRESSION

• Creative Encounters: Conversations with Kamy Wicoff

  

  Hi everyone! So, remember when I told you that I had something I planned to start doing with my blog that I wasn’t ready to tell you about yet? Well, I’m ready... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2013 SELF EXPRESSION

• SWF Seeking NFN: A Review of Rachel Bertsche’s Year-long Hunt for a New Best...

  

  For four years, I spent my time not making friends while attending college. The one potential friend that I had my freshman year was too bossy and dominant for... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2013 SELF EXPRESSION

• January Goals

  Doing monthly goals is not something I’ve ever done on my blog before, but after getting inspired by other favorite bloggers and friends, such as Melissa and... Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2013 SELF EXPRESSION

• Monday’s with Madeleine: V.6

  

  Art Reflects Eternity“My generation, and my children’s, living in this battled and insane period, find more nourishment in the structure of Bach and Mozart... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Links & Drinks: Prepping for the New Year

  

  The biggest goal I have set in place for myself this year is becoming a morning person. I didn’t count January 1st as the starter day, because I had the day... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2013 SELF EXPRESSION

• “Learn to Stand in Front of the Mirror Without Cringing.” —Hannah Brencher

  

  We Heart It Before the New Year, the lovely Hannah Brencher wrote a post about people. You as people; me as people; other people as people; and learning to be... Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2013 SELF EXPRESSION

• 2013: Words of Focus

  

  We Heart ItLast year, I read a blog post where someone had decided to choose a keyword for 2012 and use it as a focus point for what they wanted to accomplish... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2013 SELF EXPRESSION

• 2013 Goals: Revised

  

  A while back, I wrote a post about goals I wanted to accomplish in 2013. They were a pretty rough list of things I’d remembered off the top of my head that... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• Best Reads of 2012

  

  I didn’t read anywhere near as many books as I would’ve liked in 2012. Almost half of the year was taken up by my last semester of college, then there was... Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• The Books We Read

  

  We Heart ItA twenty dollar gift card to Books-A-Million. That’s all it took to inspire this post. I was scanning through my list of TBRs on Goodreads for books... Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• Goals: Writing and Blogging in 2013

  I recently took a survey at the request of Writing Happiness through being a subscriber to their newsletter. At the end of the survey, I was asked to choose... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• Pray and Remember

  

  I didn’t know how to talk about the Sandy Hook school shooting. I didn’t say anything about it on Twitter Friday, because a lot of people were using it as a... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• Links & Drinks: How to Help Your Writing Life

  

  I haven’t been writing much lately outside of this blog. I’ve brainstormed topics for personal essay projects and revised the short story I’ve been working on,... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• My Revised Stance on the Treatment of Books

  

  We Heart It I used to be a book snob: I used bookmarks, never dog-eared, never highlighted nor made notes in the margins. If I let a friend borrow a book an... Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2012 SELF EXPRESSION