Oscar has not only learned to climb and tightrope-walk along the new attic banister… Oscar has learned to love to climb and tightrope-walk along the new attic banister.
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I am delighted to announce that one of my recent blog posts, For the love of tangling, was selected to appear this month in The Woven Tale Press, which features “a culling of the best tales from the blogging web.”
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(Note: This post was written by Laurel Regan (pen name Dawn Storey) and originally published in Windsor Square on February 14, 2012.)
The more people I meet in Windsor, the more tweets I read with a hashtag of [continue reading…]
A few months ago, overwhelmed with a mountain of niggling jobs that desperately needed to be tackled but were slowly sliding into the murky abyss of laziness and procrastination, I set out to organize my thoughts in the hopes of finally getting at least a few of these jobs accomplished. [continue reading…]
Whether I’m ready to accept the fact or not, summer – such as it was, weather-wise – is fast coming to an end as the month of September approaches at what seems like lightning speed.
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We bought bookcases yesterday – an inexpensive one for my husband’s office and an only slightly more expensive one for our dining room. (Finally, after nearly two years in this house, we might actually get the rest of our books shelved… what a concept!)
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It’s good to stop, sometimes, and take a quick inventory of the things in your life for which you’re grateful at that moment in time. In no particular order, here is my own gratitude list for this moment in time.
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It’s in there, somewhere, amid
A dozen drafts
Status updates written, then deleted
Tweets left unsent
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There’s a new love in my life, and its name is tangling!
Early in June of this year, while scrolling through the latest submissions on the FMS Photo A Day Facebook group, a picture of another member’s [continue reading…]
In the long-ago summer of 1986 I was 19 years young, had just squeaked through my first year of university, and was back in what I considered to be my hometown to look for a job.
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I am now safely ensconced in my seat on a crowded Amtrak train, somewhat wistfully leaving Chicago following an incredible few days that flew by all too quickly – days of spending quality time with friends old and new, taking part in the amazing experience that was BlogHer ’13, and [continue reading…]
(Note: This post was written by Laurel Regan (pen name Dawn Storey) and originally published in Windsor Square on February 7, 2012.)
Last year around this time, anticipating a trip to Italy to discover my roots, [continue reading…]
(Note: This post was written by Laurel Regan and originally published in a separate blog called “Why Windsor…”, which was later merged with Alphabet Salad.)
Windsor’s riverfront, with its [continue reading…]
What if you suddenly discovered that some long-held, deeply ingrained, negative belief about yourself was a complete and utter lie?
What if for one moment you chose to see yourself the way others saw you, instead of through [continue reading…]
(Note: This post was written by Laurel Regan (pen name Dawn Storey) and originally published in Windsor Square on January 31, 2012.)
Not only are my husband and I newcomers to Windsor, we are also [continue reading…]
When you refer to yourself as a writer, a photographer, an artist, a creative person – do you ever feel like a fraud? Like you’re willfully labeling yourself with something that you desperately want to be true, but that may not actually apply to who you are?
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