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Finding Your Style

4 Comments / Art, Reflections, Self-reflection, Writing / Teika Marija Smits

Creatives, particularly those newer to their craft, sometimes despair that there’s nothing truly original left to create – that it’s […]

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On Failing my Best Friend (Again and Again)

4 Comments / Breastfeeding, Feminism, Mothering, Reflections, Self-reflection / Teika Marija Smits

  I have this friend. Actually, she’s my best friend. We go way back, like, to before primary school.  

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An Update on an Old Intention (aka How Ideas Mutate and Grow)

7 Comments / Creativity, Reflections, Self-reflection, Short story, Writing / Teika Marija Smits

    In October 2016 I did something unusual: I posted an ‘Intention’ (note the capital I) on my blog.

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Luke Skywalker’s Midlife Crisis

5 Comments / Psychology, Reflections, Self-reflection / Teika Marija Smits

    A New Hope (the first of the original Star Wars trilogy) was first screened in cinemas in 1977.

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The Dread of the Tax Return (especially if you’re an HSP)

3 Comments / Creativity, Psychology, Writing / Teika Marija Smits

So… January has come and gone, and with it the deadline for filing personal tax returns. For various reasons, which

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Imagination, Inspiration, and Ursula Le Guin

Leave a Comment / Creativity, Reviewing, science, Writing / Teika Marija Smits

  Since my husband is a scientist and I’m an ex-scientist, we both love science fiction (reading and writing it).

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Reflections on a Decade of Mothering

6 Comments / Family life, Mothering / Teika Marija Smits

As we near the end of the year I can’t help but look back. 2017 was a big ‘mothering year’

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Reviews of Books by Women – Are There Enough?

6 Comments / Feminism, Reading, Reviewing / Teika Marija Smits

Although there are many successful women authors in the science fiction genre today, it still feels, at times, as though

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The Appeal of Halloween to an HSP Who Doesn’t Like Horror

1 Comment / Creativity, Family life, Reflections, Self-reflection / Teika Marija Smits

I’ve never liked horror – films or books – and the few famous films in that genre that I did

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Gifts of Nature; Summer Reminiscing

2 Comments / Art, Creativity, Family life, Reflections / Teika Marija Smits

Today is a bright day, a glorious day, and I am glad of the autumn sunshine since, lately, the world

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On Feeling Invisible

25 Comments / Creativity, Family life, Psychology, Reflections, Self-reflection / Teika Marija Smits

Today, I am having a low day, a sad day. Today is a day to remind myself that there is

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The 100th Post! Blue Sky Tag (a Q&A with me), 5 Year Blogiversary & Giveaway

9 Comments / Blogging, Creativity, Family life, Reflections, Self-reflection, Writing / Teika Marija Smits

    A while back, I was lucky enough to be nominated by the ever-thougtful Dawn from Journal of Dawn

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