Today is the 31st of December, the last day of 2022. When midnight arrives, it will be a new year. Despite the last couple of years, I, like so many others, hope that the new year will be filled with so many blessings and so much joy. This is the start of a new chapter. As I look back on the year that is leaving, I think about all of the beautiful and amazing things that have made it such a wonderful year. Yes, there were moments that were not the best, but there were so many things that made this past year so extremely wonderful. I hope that this next year is amazing and beautiful for everyone reading this, and that you are all blessed with joy and comfort. Let's raise a glass to the new year. Happy New Year to everyone!
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There is something wonderful about being able to get back to something that you love after being away from it for a very long time. I feel as though I have been in a rut with my reading and my writing for the past three years or so. In fact, I know that I have. Something happened in my life three years ago that threw off my creative spark. But I am so excited to feel as if it is actually coming back. I know that this might seem like an odd thing to say, but since I have been able to read, I have found a good amount of things that I devour and pour myself into. Since my kids have been born, I have read somewhere close to 52 books a year, or one book a week. and wrote more than I ever posted in this blog. But last year I only managed to read 12 books, and most of them were books that I read to my children. I am sad to say that I did not manage to read more than that last year. As this year is quickly coming to a close, I did not meet my usual goal, but I have read 32 books and am on the brink of finishing another. This is in great part thanks to my sister and mother challenging me to participate in the 2022 Spine and Leaf Book Challenge. I am so thankful for this. By being presented with a challenge, I was able to break out of the reading slump. I am so excited to do the 2023 Reading Challenge, also by Spine and Leaf. I invite anyone who would like to join me. Now that my original blog is mine again, I am so excited to get back to writing. I have been wanting to for a while. I have also entered a piece into a contest in the hopes of becoming a published author or at least getting some writing pointers. That said, I am still trying to figure out what I want to write about for the blog and beyond. But the feeling of wanting to is something I am so excited about. I haven’t felt like I wanted to in such a long time. I hope that I will have more to post very soon, not just reviews, though I plan to start reviewing books again very soon. I hope that many of my old readers will be pleased to read my new material and see how my writing has evolved over the years.I am grateful for those who have come by and read some of my writing, and for those who have come back again and again even though there was no new writing to read. There will be one soon. I promise. I am so happy to be back. |
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