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June 19, 2025

Intro to My Commencement Speech Series: 5 Graduation Addresses that Piqued My Interest

graduates tossing their caps in the background of text "How I Briefly Rekindled My Love Affair with Commencement Speeches This Graduation Season"

I started watching commencement speeches when I was still in college, maybe my senior year. I first watched them on C-Span before graduating to YouTube. I literally spent all day watching them at times. Well, I’d flip back and forth…

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May 8, 2025

Movie Scenes I Love:  2 Scenes from ‘The Five Heartbeats’

The Five Heartbeats standing on stage together.

Directed by Robert Townsend, “The Five Heartbeats” was released on March 29, 1991 by Twentieth Century Fox.

April 6, 2025

An Ode to the Overpriced Cupcake Companion Piece: A Recipe, Fun Facts & Favs

A couple posts back, I expressed my concern that cupcakes — specifically the overpriced ones from bakeshops that specialize in cupcakes, not the ones at grocery stores — just don’t seem to be a thing like they used to be….

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March 30, 2025

My Self-Publishing Journey: What Ever Happened to My Book?  

A bookcase full of books overlayed with the heading My Pub Date, the year 2024 striked through and 2025?

It’s been a minute since I’ve mentioned anything about my book, or novella because it’s short – it’s quite short. I’d have to go back and check to see when the last time was and I don’t want to do…

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March 24, 2025

An Ode to the Overpriced Cupcake

cupcakes displayed

Lately I’ve been noticing a disturbing trend. And by lately, I mean in the last few years. Maybe it began right before or during the pandemic. I can’t quite put my finger on it, but it feels like the once…

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March 3, 2025

I Miss Christmas Already

I know it’s only March, but I love Christmas time. It seems to go by faster and faster each year. I want it to linger. I want it to start well before December and last way past January. Last year…

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