Hello friends & my blogging community! Better late then never! Here is my summary of 2025 books I've read/listened to, plus a plethora of other content I have been consuming. If you've been tracking with me here over the years, you'll know that I typically track these on my Reading List page on the site …
Continue reading 2025 Reading List & Good Resources (My Annual Book List is Now Ready!)
Below is a summary of my personal notes. (Read: very personal and unfiltered.) It's a "dump" of information I wanted to capture before the year is over. Initially I wrote this for myself and thought I'd copy and paste it to a friend planning a trip. Eventually, I decided it best to store and paste …
Continue reading [Travel Guide] New Zealand’s South & North Island – 2026 edition
To be frank, I don't know what "they" say about grief. And quite frankly, I don't think it matters. Grief, to me, is a feeling. It's meant to be felt rather than necessarily explained in words. At least, that's how I am thinking about it at present. So please bear with me... as I feel …
I sit here listening to various pieces of emotional tunes spurring a range of different emotions within me. The little coffee shop in my neighbourhood has graciously allowed me to sit here all these hours and my table partner has now left for the past hour. Flowing into and out of distracting messages on my …
Continue reading Let’s Allow Ourselves to Feel – A Little More!
2024 was a strange year. That's my word of the year. And as I sit here pondering how I've spent it (mostly making some huge decisions and travelling some), I look back on some of the titles thinking "that feels like ages ago!" I suppose that's a good thing - that the year felt like …
Continue reading A 2024 Reading List, TV List, + Reflection (of sorts!)
2022 Reading List | 2021 Reading List | 2020 Reading List | Complete Reading List *Note for 2023: My goal this year is not to attempt to power through books as if I am binging a TV show and wanting to hear the complete story from A to B. Rather, I'd like to absorb the …
2023 Reading List | 2021 Reading List | 2020 Reading List | 2019-2019 Reading List *New for 2022: I've started to track "unfinished" books as well. These are books I've decided not to continue reading for the sake of "completing" the task. It's me realizing the book and ideas in it are not for me anymore. Perhaps at this particularly …
Continue reading 2022 Reading List + Other Learning Notes {#tywlife}
Please ignore some of my typos and perhaps... half thoughts. These notes are mostly written for myself, so undoubtedly they are plastered with thoughts and ideas for, well, me! tyw = denotes personal thoughts, add-ons, or actions for myself. Skimming this list below, some new notes and thoughts. (Scroll to the bottom for my latest …
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