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Continue reading →: A Deflowering, From A To Z
This post was written in answer to today’s Daily Post prompt, to create a memoir that is 26 sentences long, in which the first sentence begins with “A” and each sentence thereafter begins with the next letter of the alphabet. After high school, I decided it was time to lose my…
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Continue reading →: Receiving An Education
Today’s Daily Post prompt asks us what we’d study if we could go back to school right now. I think it’s really important to note that in my life, I’ve been mostly lucky when it comes to education. First off, when it came time for me to go to undergrad, I…
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Continue reading →: OMG, I just found Frank!
If you’ve been reading the blog over the last couple of weeks, you’ve seen that I’ve mentioned this old stuffed rabbit, Frank, a couple of times. Frank was important to me. He first arrived in my life in the Christmas of 1998. My Nana and Grandaddy gave him to me…
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Continue reading →: Overdoing it at the Catfish Buffet
True story: I get home from vacation to find that my catfish, Sparky, is terribly bloated, but swimming just fine. Fearing that it must be dropsy, or some other mysterious fish disease, I immediately tested the water. He’s my last surviving fish, and the little bastard has lived through everything…
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Continue reading →: The Mystery of Friendship
Today’s Daily Post prompt is to complete the sentence: “My closest friend is…” Surprisingly (or maybe not surprising at all, depending on how well you know me), I can’t complete the sentence. I don’t think that I have a “closest friend.” It’s just too hard to choose. When I was…
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Continue reading →: The Deadline
I’m so angry right now. I’m angry at The Man for flinching when I try to hug or kiss him, for getting grossed out when I have to explain something about my body to him because he asks a question that I can’t answer delicately, for sulking ALL.THE.TIME. I’m angry…
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Continue reading →: Changing My Life: #4
Note: I wrote this post last Thursday, but due to some super-secret event planning info, wasn’t able to post it until now. Something exciting occurred to me today that I thought I should share here. As you might know if you’ve been following any of the Changing My Life posts,…
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Continue reading →: Stranger In A Strange Land
The thing I love about traveling to foreign climes is the anonymity. I can be anyone I want to, because no one knows me. No one knows my limitations, preferences, or background. They can’t equate me with anything because there are no measurements by which to judge me. I love…
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Continue reading →: My Dream Home Is Another Place
Kind of interesting that today’s Daily Post prompt would ask us to describe our dream home. Today I’m more disappointed with my life than I’ve been in some time, and so I’m more inclined to be painfully honest here. My dream home is far, far away from New Orleans. I…
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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