How can making a rice & beans dinner on a Wednesday have anything to do with celebration - especially celebration of steadiness? Hello, it's been nine months and a day since my last blog post, but I'm back, and doing just fine. 🙂 Daily writing promptWhat are you doing this evening?View all responses Seriously, I'm... Continue Reading →
Nearing the End of Year 2024
As I near the end of 2024, I impulsively wrote this blog post half-heartedly attempting to make sense of my emotions. This is a blog, not an official and important website, eh? Just to contradict the rest of this post 🙂 - I live a fruitful, adventurous, and comfortable life. I am very grateful for... Continue Reading →
Social Media Consumption Confession #2
Hello, my name is Andrea and I am addicted to media consumption (just like everyone else). The media I've been consuming lately is Reddit's sub forum Am I The Asshole (AITA), The Legend of Korra, the insanely brilliant novel Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell, and Body Image-related posts in my Instagram Feed. Social Media Addiction... Continue Reading →
Achieve Your Goals by Working Backwards
Maybe you've struggled to achieve your goals because you haven't tried working backwards. Our society encourages, imposes, and arguably forces linear thinking upon us from an early age. What if another methodology were to work for you? Daily writing promptHow do you plan your goals?View all responses Me inside of a hole, taken by my... Continue Reading →
Leave the House Prepared: Phone, Wallet, Keys
My phone-wallet-keys method keeps me leaving the house prepared more than anything else in life. In fact, it's this mental behavioral technique that keeps me (wrongfully) thinking I'm an actual grown adult. The full list is phone, wallet, keys, knife, water bottle, sunglasses! Daily writing promptWhat is the most important thing to carry with you... Continue Reading →
2023 Travel Plans by Nomadic Folks – ABSGELLER
Daily writing promptWhat are your future travel plans?View all responses My 2023 Travel Plans were set by the end of January. I tricked y'all, cause this post is more about travels I've done this year than the travels we intend for the future. Between my best friends in LA and NYC, dad in Florida, my... Continue Reading →
5 Tips for Making Money at Art Festivals
Do you, audience who seeks authentic self-expression, want to know how I'm making money at art festivals? Here are my lessons learned as I begin to sell my art professionally and construct a long-term business structure... THANK YOU: Oden Brewing and Chee Chee, Royal Jelly and Bob, Hornfeldt Photography and With A Twist Media, Screen... Continue Reading →
Ostara: Positively Overwhelmed for the Oden Brewing Spring Equinox Festival 2023
Well, Ostara is already here, and it seems like Imbolc was just yesterday. That's two whole months ago! But hey, we're glad for it, because we've been looking forward to the Oden Brewing Spring Equinox Festival 2023 for months now. And by we I mean me and my seven personalities. Obligatory flyer to give you... Continue Reading →
Hope in our Future with the Help of our Friends
This year has given me hope in our future as a result of the help of my friends. When I say hope, I'm referring to that meme circling around about how "hope has dirt on her face"; and when I say help, I mean both literal hands-on help as well as general support and development... Continue Reading →
Being a School Bus Driver – Black History Month
My Black History Month is dedicated to the black men and women I work with every day as a School Bus Driver for Guilford County Schools in Greensboro, North Carolina. I became a school bus driver to get my CDL so that I could drive Bailey. I got my CDL, I got a job, but... Continue Reading →
