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Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. “Tomorrow my life begins.” I can’t even tell you how many times I have heard this phrase uttered on the various wedding blogs, websites, and groups that I have been a part of ever since getting engaged earlier this year. Although, as a society, we are…
Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. Exactly one year ago today, I said “I love you” for the very first time in a relationship. That might sound crazy for a variety of reasons: I am 31 years old, I have been in at least two other longterm relationships (lasting two years and…
Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. Last July I wrote about how my life turned into a rom-com cliché and that I was okay with it. It was a post telling the tale of how I met Adam unexpectedly shortly after moving down to Florida. As you now know, the past year…
Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. Happiness is something that humans think about a lot. At least I do. For years now, I have been saying that “happiness is a choice and it’s a choice that I make (almost) every day.” That’s still true, of course, but sometimes that kind of thinking…
Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. Valentine’s Day isn’t for everyone. It’s a very specific, sort-of-made-up holiday that tends to favor those in love and fans of cheesy gestures of affection. I have never in my life been one of those people. Sure, I was a self-admitted hopeless romantic but I usually…