Happy New Year!!! (Plus 2019 Blog Updates)

Photo Credit: Hip, hip, hurra! Kunstnerfest på Skagen, Peder Severin Kroyer, 1888, oil on canvas, Gothenburg Museum of Art, Gothenburg, Sweden: Thuresson/Wikimedia Commons/PD Art (PD old 100) First off, here’s wishing everyone a happy New Year!!! I know that 2018 was a tough year for me and I think it was a tough year for …

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Blog Break and Series Fact Sheet

Photo Credit: Illustration from “The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton”, Sydney Paget, Strand Magazine, 1904: Sebastian Wallroth/Wikimedia Commons/PD Art (PD Old 100) Thank you to all the wonderful people who are continuing to check out my blog. The support and encouragement has been overwhelming! I will be traveling abroad for the next several months so …

Mother Time Musings Blog — New Blog is Up!

Before I went on my Camp NaNoWriMo break in July, I hinted that there would be a new blog coming up that would focus more on historical topics related to America’s Gilded Age and Progressive eras, since this is the direction much of my writing (though not all) has been taking this year. I am …

First Worlds: Writing and Blogging in New Directions

Photo Credit: The Blue Veil by Edmond Tarbell, oil painting, 1898: freeparking/Flickr/CC BY 2.0 “The creative personality never remains fixed on the first world it discovers. It never resigns itself to anything ... “ (Nin, location 3587) I love this quote from Nin because it’s so true of many creative people. The nature of creativity …

The Dream Book Blog is a Top 50 Lucid Dream Blog!

Exactly two months ago, I wrote a blog post reflecting on my experience as a blogger on my two-year blogging anniversary. Imagine my shock and awe when I opened my email this morning to this message: I would like to personally congratulate you as your blog The Dream Book has been selected by our panelist …

My Two-Year Blogging Anniversary

Photo Credit: 2nd anniversary banner, uploaded February 12, 2016 by geralt: geralt/Pixabay/CC0 1.0 Last week, I participated in a tag that made me reflect a bit on my blog. This week, I decided to take that further and talk about my blogging journey, which actually began even before I started this blog. Back in 2015. …

Celebrating The Little Things Tag

Photo Credit: Blogging Fun!, from Mike Licht of NotionsCapital.com, taken on October 22, 2008: Mike Licht, Notions Capital.com/Flickr/CC BY 2.0 This week’s blog post is a little different from my usual post. I was tagged by author and blogger Trin Carl to participate in the blog tag to celebrate the little things and I thought …