Anyone who knows me knows that I am quite old-fashioned. I have long hair that I usually keep braided, I’ve been known to make things such as baked beans and apple butter from scratch, and my free time is typically spent knitting or crocheting. My old-fashioned behavior doesn’t stop there, however. My goal in life …
Mercury is a pretty poisonous material. It can kill you if you’re not careful. That’s why I’m surprised anyone thought it was ever a good idea to use it as a dental filling. Anyway, my parents have been getting their mercury fillings replaced with ceramic ones recently, and all the talk of dental work has …
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As I prepare to graduate college, I’m tasked with a final challenge. (And I’m not talking about staying motivated during the last few weeks of my college career. That’s a different story.) No, I have to present a capstone project, part of which involves writing a ‘critical introduction’ that lists all the authors and books …
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, I present to you…information on Book 3 in the Clouds Aflame series. Before I got started working on this book, I honestly thought that writing was easy. Everything just came to me. Words knocked around inside my head and my heart, and if I didn’t write them down, I’d …
In five blessed weeks, I will be done with college. In those five weeks, I have an important project to work on. My advisor and I are working together to polish Book 3 in the Clouds Aflame series as my capstone project–the bachelor’s degree version of a thesis. In preparation, my advisor gave me a …