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📆 September '23: Monthly Wrap-Up
Raccoons who babysit, unending gratitude(s) and an old sonnet
📌 How a Dream Came True
Otherwise entitled: "A huge thank you to my wonderful editor, Kat Brzozowski"
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📕 "There's Something Odd About the Babysitter" - Coming Summer 2025!
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📌 When Mr. Rogers Wrote Me Back
I hope I'm just the same way when I'm lucky enough to get "fan mail"
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📌 The Indelible Nourishment of Milkwood
Strengthening the threads of children's literature, one newly-forged community at a time. (Otherwise entitled: WOW, wow, wow-ee.)
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📌 Think of a Critique as a Buffet Spread
Related: don't go to a buffet if you aren't really hungry!
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📆 August '23: Monthly Wrap-Up
Nerdy Gal Autumn beckons, plus an unexpected fall #protip
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📌 Quietly Retreating
A Writerly Visit to Le Monastère des Augustines with Newfound "Sisters" of My Own
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📌 If Someone's Just Not That Into Your Work—or Even You—It's Okay!
We can't all be as popular as Dolly Parton. Alas!
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📌 The Mad Men-Era Animal Memes of My 1980s Memories
Say hello to the 1950s book-bound versions of today's widely shared funnies
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