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Continue reading →: Sing or Swim
Today’s Daily Post prompt asks us about a time we were left to fend for ourselves in an overwhelmingly difficult position. This post isn’t about survival at its most heightened sense, but it is about the survival of my voice, and how naysayers almost silenced the most important facet of…
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Continue reading →: Weekly Photo Challenge: Let There Be Light (On My Favorite Cat)
Yeah, I know I’ve already posted one entry for this week’s challenge, but yesterday I caught an interesting glimpse of my cat Isabel through the camera lens, and thought it was worth sharing. We’re technically supposed to be sharing a light source, but you’ll have to take this at the…
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Continue reading →: One Random Annoyance (a.k.a. 1 Question Not To Ask)
You know what bites? When you tell people what you studied in college, and instead of saying “Cool!” and moving on, or asking “Wow, that must have been interesting, right?” and opening themselves up for conversation, they instead say something rude like, “Why on earth would you have studied THAT?”…
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Continue reading →: Weekly Photo Challenge: Let There Be Light
Though all of my friends started going to concerts when they were pretty young – 12 or 13 years old – I wasn’t allowed out of the house without adult supervision until I reached 16. It was a little longer before I finally managed to convince my mom that live…
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Continue reading →: I Went To Town To See…
My father has three best friends, Billy, Buddy and Dever. He once told me that he felt much closer to them than he feels to his real brothers, and these men became my “uncles,” sending me presents, checking in on me (to this day), and generally being funny and weird.…
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Continue reading →: How Do You Tell Someone You Don’t Love Them?
Back in my undergrad days – many, many moons ago – I sang A Capella. (If you’re curious, I’m a 2nd soprano, but I’m pretty solid on alto when necessary.) Anyway, at the time, we did a cover of this one song that I absolutely hated, called “How Do You…
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Continue reading →: Game Of Thrones Cat, a.k.a. My Favorite YouTube Video
I present to you a gorgeous Siamese cat meowing the Game of Thrones theme song. About a year ago, I randomly ran across this video, and promptly fell in love. When I’m in a down mood (like today, when it’s FREEZING in my office – seriously, I’m wearing a scarf),…
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Continue reading →: Oh, Henri! How Right You Are…
One of my favorite celebricats is Henri, the morose French philosopher cat who stars on his own YouTube channel. Of his short films, his Halloween appearance, “L’Haunting” is my favorite. There’s this wonderful line about how people never dress up as anything truly frightening – like crippling self doubt. Of…
Hello,
I’m Nova
I have no “personal brand.” I’m not a girl boss, I’m not an influencer, and I don’t aspire to be powerful, inspiring, or rich. I probably can’t teach you anything, and there’s a good chance that there’s nothing at all of interest or use to you here. This is just where I come to talk about the random bits and pieces that make up my quiet life as a sober woman in her 40s. I’m engaged to the love of my life, have six (yes, SIX) indoor pets, and spend a lot of time gardening and hunting for thrift treasures. I also study classical voice (I’m a lyric coloratura soprano) and am deeply interested in all things spiritual and paranormal. Right now I’m trying to recover from career burnout and even out my personal energy, but my eventual goal is to become a medium and shamanic healer, using music to remind humans of the things that actually matter: connection, community, and loving all living things as though they were our own children. I may or may not talk about all of these things here (and sometimes all at once). Welcome!
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