When I first started looking at houses in Erie, Pennsylvania, I saw a duplex that I thought was absolutely perfect for me! I could live on the first house and rent out the second unit upstairs for some rental income. Well, unfortunately, the house was a disaster and the listing was misrepresented. But this was…
In 1998, Emily Slatin embarked on a journey that simply wasn’t considered an option before the turn of the twenty-first century. Plenty of people started websites back then, but often only in the hopes of making a quick buck. So, to say she was ahead of her time was an understatement. As a long-time photographer…
Happy birthday to Jess of the Shire! It turns out that she shares a birthday with celebrated fantasy fiction author Terry Pratchett, albeit a half century apart in birth year. While Jess is mostly known for her Tolkien related content (obvious by the screenname) she has dabbled in other areas of fiction like the Dune…
“It’s the little things I see that most people don’t. Like the way birds fly backwards, forwards, and fall. How butterflies dance around in the air as if they’re weightless, and how flowers sway organically in the wind. Perhaps I care too much, and dive too deep.” —Emily Pratt Slatin Emily Slatin is a master…
This was the first sponsored post that Emily ever paid me for, and therefore I must preserve it in spirit in these pages. Back as I was wont to do every day in 2020, I ran one of my typical morning threads on Twitter. Typically, they were of the #writerslift variety. My hope with these…