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Music that Leads to Emotional Lockdown: Twisted Mix-Tape Tuesday

Nov 26, 2013 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 20 Comments

  Super thrilled to take on another week of Jen Kehl’s, Twisted Mix Tape. This week the theme is: This Song Could Have Sent Me to Jail. Want to join […]

Filed Under: Music, NaBloPoMo13 Tagged With: NaBloPoMo13, twisted mix-tape Tuesday

Nature’s Bounty

Nov 25, 2013 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 7 Comments

The Promise of a New Day.                 The way the air smells after the rain.  .               […]

Filed Under: For the Love of Nature, Living, NaBloPoMo13 Tagged With: Grateful, NaBloPoMo13, nature

Reframing Memory: Thoughts on being a Granparent

Nov 24, 2013 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 2 Comments

It was a rainy autumn day—leaves stuck to the road, windshield wipers kept time to the soft fluttering beat of my heart. What had been a conversation between my mother […]

Filed Under: Memories, NaBloPoMo13 Tagged With: Grandparents, Memory, NaBloPoMo13

The (not so) Big Reveal

Nov 23, 2013 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 16 Comments

Looks as if I won this round of 5 Truths, 1 Lie. No one came close. Of course only 3 people played, versus the 90+ on my new friend Jen’s […]

Filed Under: NaBloPoMo13 Tagged With: Fear, NaBloPoMo13, Name Change, Weird Jobs

Missing the Mark: Unraveling a Convoluted Blog Post

Nov 22, 2013 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 16 Comments

Have you ever sent a message that was completely misconstrued? Well I have. It happened yesterday. After  I re-read my words this morning three things occurred to me: 1. There […]

Filed Under: Blog Lessons, NaBloPoMo13 Tagged With: blogging lessons, NaBloPoMo13, Regret, Writing

The Sound of Raindrops: Promise of a New Day

Nov 21, 2013 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 10 Comments

  The rain came somewhere in the night. And it’s melodic sound pulled me from bed earlier than usual, my mood considerably lighter than the day before. Yesterday wasn’t so […]

Filed Under: NaBloPoMo13, On being a parent Tagged With: community, helping others, Life, nablopomo, rain

5 Truths, 1 Lie

Nov 20, 2013 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 10 Comments

I am feeling super lazy and borderline cranky  this morning…clearly that has carried over into this afternoon evening. I simply do not feel like writing today. And even though I […]

Filed Under: Living, NaBloPoMo13 Tagged With: 1 Lie, 5 Truths, Moodiness, NaBloPoMo13

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