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Unsettled Grief

Loss can be a funny thing.  Small losses can feel like a huge inconvenience, large losses feel distant, and every type of loss in between feels like a paper cut.  We all lose something. Someone.  It’s a matter of when, where, and how (and maybe, why).  We will all lose people. We will become someone…

A Year of Less?

Usually, in a new year, we make resolutions of things to do that are ostensibly meant to make us better people. For the last few years, I have made no resolutions or goals. Honestly, just surviving was enough for me. But now, a few months in, I have a resolution of sorts to proclaim. A…

Workplace Dominance

I should have known to expect a hefty dose of emotional turmoil in an Adriana Anders book. It may look all cute and rom-com on the surface, but just beneath the humor and the grumpy/sunshine workplace banter is a depth of self discovery and realization of boundaries and how to learn how to say “no.”…

Who is Scijess? And why does she read?

A California girl in my soul, I hail from the Sequoia Forest area of the Golden State. I currently reside in TX. I am an introverted Enneagram 5 Capricorn (if you believe in those things). My idea of a good time is curling up with coffee and a book, and getting all snuggled up with cozy blankets and squishmallows. This is a place to share my love of reading, books, and other life things. Welcome!

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