As the title says, Alexa is no longer at Summer Snowflakes. 😉 I’m super proud of this cute little blog, and all the insightful, thoughtful, musical, dreaming, fangirling posts I made as a teenager. We laughed, we cried, and it moved me, Bob. 😉 But I’ve been wanting to try a...

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I’ve just been really feeling this song lately. Ain’t it beautiful! Especially the lines “Yesterday’s gone and / Tomorrow never comes still I’m / Living like they’re all that I’ve got.” Especially over the last year and a half, I keep returning to this yearning, this constant ache of wanting to...

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So it’s been 50 million years since I’ve posted a book review… but it’s also been 75 million since I read a book to review. So. I feel like my excuses here are pretty solid. Description: Here are three things to know about Maia: 1. Ever since her mother left, Maia’s struggled with depression—which once...

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At the end of 2020, probably November or December, I began curating a playlist for 2021. It’s not something I’ve ever done before, but it came to me that, whatever happened in the new year, I wanted to be able to control what feelings I focused on, what themes and ideas...

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Fear.It’s this constant foreboding, this dread that wraps around your throat and digs into your soul and rejects even the notion of releasing you. There is always something to be afraid of. You tell yourself that you're safe in the Lord; you know that He will take care of you. You...

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When I went for a walk around my block, just a couple of days after Halloween, I noticed that one of the houses on the street was already decked out in full Christmas gear: lights, reindeer, trees, wreaths, you name it. As we've settled into November, I've noticed it more and...

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If ever there was a song for coronavirus, I feel like this is it. I first heard this song almost a year ago; one of my favorite YouTubers played it in the birth video for their long-awaited baby boy. It was just the most perfect, beautiful song to go along...

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There have been some great tags going around this year and I plan to systematically steal them as a way to motivate myself to get back into blogging (why, yes, committing crime is one of the most powerful motivators, I find. 😉 ). This first one, I got from the...

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Wow. It seems absolutely insane for me to think that we’re heading into summer! To me, it doesn’t seem like we should be anywhere near that yet (it’s literally still February, you guys). And yet… here we are. School is out for most people, the air is one of sweet...

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