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Where Bloggers Live: My New Year’s Resolutions
Y’all. Twenty twenty-five pretty much shoved twenty twenty-four out the door, grabbed the hardest liquor in the cabinet, and said “I’ll take it from here.” I mean, seriously, what the actual ______ is this nonsense? How do we start the freaking year off with terrorist attacks, a mass shooting, expansionist threats, and a devastating fire? This is all just too much. Sorry, didn’t mean to start off quite so, I don’t even know the words, but this is pretty much what I’m feeling right now. But we’re gonna plow through this. We’re survivors, right? Right. On a more positive note, The Hubs, my sister, her husband, and I ended the…
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Where Bloggers Live: The Best Gifts I’ve Ever Received
When I was in my early teens, my best friend, Alisa, introduced me to Danielle Steel. Danielle Steel is an American author whose books are characterized by young women with traumatic childhoods who marry wealthy, much older men. Initially, I was caught up in the romance of the stories… To my thirteen-year-old mind, wealth and glamour went hand in hand with love and romance. Never mind that these women were marrying men who were old enough to be their fathers. That being said, one story stuck with me and would have a significant influence on me. Message from Nam told the story of Paxton Andrews, a female war correspondent who…
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Where Bloggers Live: My Top 5 Posts
As the blogger and photographer behind Living Outside the Stacks, I independently select and write about stuff I love and things I think you’ll enjoy too. Living Outside the Stacks has affiliate and advertising partnerships so I get revenue from sharing this content and from your purchase. Thank you for your support. When Bettye first invited me to join this group, I had no idea what I was signing up for… I thought is was just gonna be one of those things that I did for a few months and then bowed out gracefully. Well, here we are five years later and I’m still hanging in there. Admittedly, there’ve been…
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Where Bloggers Live: You Don’t Owe Anyone Politeness
As the blogger and photographer behind Living Outside the Stacks, I independently select and write about stuff I love and things I think you’ll enjoy too. Living Outside the Stacks has affiliate and advertising partnerships so I get revenue from sharing this content and from your purchase. Thank you for your support. I struggled with this post because I wasn’t sure if I wanted to be serious or frivolous. I wasn’t sure if I should share details about my personal traumas or just skim over the surface. I opted, obviously, to be serious and give enough details about my story so that you know that I’ve been there. I’m not…
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Where Bloggers Live: How I Deal with Boredom
As the blogger and photographer behind Living Outside the Stacks, I independently select and write about stuff I love and things I think you’ll enjoy too. Living Outside the Stacks has affiliate and advertising partnerships so I get revenue from sharing this content and from your purchase. Thank you for your support. Hey, Friends! How are y’all doing? I’m doing well over here. We’re nearing the end of the semester, so things are both hectic and slowing down {if that’s possible}. The students are prepping for Finals, while we’re prepping for graduation. Like most academics, this is my favorite time of year — we get to celebrate our students and…
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Where Bloggers Live: My Favorite Season
As the blogger and photographer behind Living Outside the Stacks, I independently select and write about stuff I love and things I think you’ll enjoy too. Living Outside the Stacks has affiliate and advertising partnerships so I get revenue from sharing this content and from your purchase. Thank you for your support. I think this may be the first time in for-ever that I’ve gotten this post out on time. The only reason is because I woke up at 3 something this morning and couldn’t go back to sleep. I’ve been waking like this for the past few days, which leads me to believe I’m stressed about something and need…
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Where Bloggers Live: What’s in My Refrigerator?
As the blogger and photographer behind Living Outside the Stacks, I independently select and write about stuff I love and things I think you’ll enjoy too. Living Outside the Stacks has affiliate and advertising partnerships so I get revenue from sharing this content and from your purchase. Thank you for your support. I don’t know why, but I feel like I’ve written something like this before… If I have, hopefully, my refrigerator looks better, cleaner, more full? I don’t know. It is a couple of days after pay day, so we have stuff. Yay, us. So, keep reading to find out what’s in my refrigerator… ABOUT WHERE BLOGGERS LIVE Welcome…
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Where Bloggers Live: How I Stay Warm in Cold Weather
As the blogger and photographer behind Living Outside the Stacks, I independently select and write about stuff I love and things I think you’ll enjoy too. Living Outside the Stacks has affiliate and advertising partnerships so I get revenue from sharing this content and from your purchase. Thank you for your support. Hey, Friends! Welcome to 2024. Can you believe we’re in a new year? It really does feel like it all passed so quickly, right? I won’t make any promises for this year. I never seem to follow through and, quite honestly, I’m tired of apologizing for it. So I’ll make every effort to just be and do better…
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Where Bloggers Live: My Favorite Christmas Decorations
As the blogger and photographer behind Living Outside the Stacks, I independently select and write about stuff I love and things I think you’ll enjoy too. Living Outside the Stacks has affiliate and advertising partnerships so I get revenue from sharing this content and from your purchase. Thank you for your support. I’m the laziest of Christmas decorators. When the kids were little, I couldn’t wait to put up the decorations. Of course, this is no surprise, as kids tend to make things magical. Once they moved out of the house, I still decorated but it was all last minute. This year was no exception. I literally put up the…
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Where Bloggers Live: What’s In My Suitcase?
As the blogger and photographer behind Living Outside the Stacks, I independently select and write about stuff I love and things I think you’ll enjoy too. Living Outside the Stacks has affiliate and advertising partnerships so I get revenue from sharing this content and from your purchase. Thank you for your support. How fun is my suitcase? You can see a little bit of it in the trunk of my car in the picture. It’s a Betsy Johnson piece that I found years ago at Marshall’s. They had a smaller under seat suitcase that I routinely kick myself for not buying. I didn’t think I’d need it. I was looks…