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Another Day for Love (Monsters)
Another year, another Valentine’s, another monster doodle to remind you there are worse things to celebrate than a day for love. Happy Valentine’s Day. You can read the original post here if you’d like.
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A Day for Love (Monsters)
Every online journal I’ve had shares a similar post about Valentine’s Day. About time this one followed suit. Each year, I hear people say they don’t celebrate Valentine’s. Their reasons are typically one, it was started to sell greeting cards, or two, you shouldn’t need
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Monster Doodles
I’ve been doodling monsters. I often doodle them to unwind. I’ll either grab a notebook and a pen or my iPad and Procreate and just start drawing. I treat the process like a first draft of writing, focusing on a smidge of an idea and seeing what lands
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Here There Be Promises: Writing and Design Goals for Q2 2023
The first quarter has come and gone, seemingly as fast as a cobbler elf in the night. So now we’re here, early April, and it’s time to review what I completed and what’s coming next. You can learn more about my goals process from the January post.
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January Echoes: Writing and Design Goals for Q1 2023
I set goals most quarters, and January often sets the tone for the year. Writing goals can feel like starting a mini-story. I’m the character, I jot down what I want to achieve, and then, like a fun first draft, I set out to see how the story unfolds.
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A Starry—Or Not So Starry—Nonfiction Article
It’s been hectic, to say the least. Life in general has been. I’ll add more color to that claim later, but most of my sabbatical goals have been thrown for a loop. Disappointing, but it’s not all bad news around these parts. The good news is that
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Links to What I’ve Read About Star Ratings
I’m writing an article about star ratings, the ambiguity of them, mainly focused on how they fail readers. While writing the piece, I’ve read a number of articles for research. Several are linked to in the article, but not all. I’m sharing most of them here for
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Site Designs Left by the Wayside
I wrote in a previous entry that I designed too many versions of this site and wanted to stop. While that entry talks about how I ended up with the current iteration, I saved several of the unused versions. Here are a few mock-ups of those iterations, along with brief
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How I Designed My Website to Stop Designing My Website
I created several iterations of this website—some might say too many. I designed more than a handful in Figma, and I coded about a handful of those. I enjoy designing and coding, and owning a personal website allows me to do both. Problem is, I would rather write stories