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Continue reading →: What Do You Want Out Of Life?
It’s one of those days again. One of the days that seem to hit me more and more often, when I wake up with this thought swimming around in my brain that just demands to be heard: “What do you want out of life? What do you want out of…
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Continue reading →: Let Girl Day Commence!
Woke up this morning and decided I need a treat. Heading off to get an hour long facial, then getting waxed so I can look a little less like a yeti in a bathing suit this weekend at the beach. I think I might try to fit a manicure in…
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Continue reading →: Memories
I just got reprimanded on FB, and it’s got me down. After my last post about moving to Chicago for the first time after Hurricane Katrina, I got nostalgic and started looking up my old photos. It turned out that I had a bunch of photos from 2005 that weren’t…
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Continue reading →: Weekly Photo Challenge: Companionable
Izzy’s younger brother Murphy (a.k.a. Munky) came to us as a 3 month old kitten. I was worried at first about introducing him to The Man; even though we’d agreed to get another cat, the interview process was up to me. I was more concerned with picking a personality that…
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Continue reading →: What is this, The Highlander?
First off, immortality sounds pretty awful, not gonna lie. I mean, sure, if I get to look like Pam from True Blood, maybe I’ll be OK with living forever. But in general, it sounds pretty tedious. I’m looking forward to the fact that there’s a light at the end of…
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Continue reading →: A Lesson On A Cold, Dark Night
In response to today’s Daily Post prompt… In the winter of 2005, I was living in Uptown, Chicago. It was around 8pm, dark and freezing out. I was walking home from the grocery store to my studio apartment, a short but slippery trip. In warmer months, those five blocks would…
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Continue reading →: Changing My Life: #3 (Short Update)
Just wanted to stop in for a second to say that after yesterday’s post, I worked up the courage to go home and talk to The Man about my choice to get off of the pill and start working with a fertility computer. Since I’d spent some time looking over…
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Continue reading →: Scheherazade
As I mentioned a couple of posts back, I got my first book of fairy tales as a very young girl. My father is really into books, as am I, and when I was a kid, our house even had its own library. The shelves were floor to ceiling, corner…
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Continue reading →: Changing My Life: #2
If you read the first of my Changing My Life series, you’ll know that I’m using this subset of posts to discuss the steps I want/need to undertake or AM undertaking to better align my current self with my ideal self. These are personal, but I’m making them public because…
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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