Tag: travel
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National Old Rock Day
In Defense of the Patient Ones Today, January 7, is National Old Rock Day, which sounds like a celebration invented by geology professors and sentient mountains—but it turns out to be surprisingly relevant to how the world works, how stories work, and how some planets refuse to be rushed. Old rocks are not just “rocks…
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Happy Pretend to Be a Time Traveler Day
Depending on where you live, you’re reading this in a different moment than I wrote it — hours into my future, or hours behind my present. That’s its own quiet form of time travel. So, in the spirit of Pretend to Be a Time Traveler Day, (happening on December 8), I’m hopping across those time…
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Gateway to Whimsy
In my prior posts, I explained how my writing journey began — and how it started, somewhat unwillingly, with skunks. So, around that same time, I was looking for something to take my mind off things. Yes, including the pesky skunks. Neuroplasticity teaches new ways of reacting to old triggers, after all. Sure, normal people…
A Heep of Words: Books by Alexandra Heep, Helena Parx, Lexa Drane 