HeyJaredAmanda Loves Words
A newsletter about stories and art: book reviews, TV, music, writing, and creating.
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Unlikely inspiration: part one (opens the original)
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I’ve been thinking a lot the past year or so about creative inspiration, and thought I’d finally write some of those thoughts down. Here’s my caveat for this mini-series of posts: these are just observations from my own life and are in no way meant to be prescriptive.<div clas
Monthly rundown vol. 42 (opens the original)
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Hello, hello! August was a wild and bumpy ride, mostly due to the back-to-school transition, which somehow feels harder when the weather is brutally hot and humid. It’s the time of year when I feel like I’ll never feel a cool breeze again, which may be reflected in one or two of my reads (what I wouldn’t give for a cold and rainy day in the Irish countryside right about now). I try not to complain too much though, because August is a part of life, and there are plenty of people (like my husband)
Monthly rundown vol. 41 (opens the original)
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Hello, hello! Welcome to the dog days of summer in the northern hemisphere, and the coziest, frozen days of winter for those south of the equator! (is there an equivalent term like “dog days of summer” for winter? If so, I can’t remember it. Tell me in the comments!). For my family July held our usual church camps plus road trip to visit family in Missouri. That “Ultimate Summer Vacation (USV)” as my kids call it is definitely one of the highlights of our year. My daughter has been immersed in t
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