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NaBloPoMo Bitches!

Posted on November 1, 2015 by noemikjames / 9 Comments

Yep! That’s right bitches! I’m doing NaBloPoMo this month! I used to sign up, kind of as an after thought, because posting every day wasn’t mu...

Health & Well Being/Identity/Writing

Retreat

Posted on September 15, 2015 by noemikjames / 18 Comments

I have been blogging for (what feels like) a long time (I actually missed my six year blogoversary last month). I used to write almost every day, and I would wr...

Life/Parenting & Family/Writing

Struggling

Posted on August 20, 2015 by noemikjames / 27 Comments

Sorry for the absence from this space. Things have been hectic and at the end of the day I just don’t feel like writing much. The reality is I’m kin...

Identity/Writing

Missing My Compulsion

Posted on March 27, 2015 by noemikjames / 13 Comments

Things have calmed down a bit this week. I’ve had some time to write. The problem is, I haven’t wanted to. I have a long list of post ideas, but I c...

Identity/Minimalism/Writing

Lost

Posted on December 29, 2014 by noemikjames / 24 Comments

I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to disappear again. I hate that I’m becoming “that blogger,” the one who writes for a week or two and the...

Identity/Writing

Why I’m Here

Posted on November 11, 2014 by noemikjames / 1 Comment

Why am I here? In this space? Writing under this name? {And where did I get that name anyhow?} It seems I didn’t make these things clear. And I want to, a...

Identity/Writing

Where I am

Posted on November 7, 2014 by noemikjames / 6 Comments

I have not been participating in this community in the ways that I want to. I want to be commenting more. I want my presence on friends’ blogs to be felt,...

Connection/Identity/Life/Writing

The New Me

Posted on October 14, 2014 by noemikjames / 12 Comments

In the past three months I lost 25 lbs, got an IUD placed, bought (and was gifted) a whole new wardrobe (and even some new jewelry and shoes), tried in earnest ...

Identity/Writing

Oasis

Posted on October 7, 2014 by noemikjames / 1 Comment

{This week’s focus was memoir and the assignment was to capture a memory from childhood, one that holds a strange fascination even today. This is what I w...

Identity/Writing

Writing as a Hostile Act

Posted on October 6, 2014 by noemikjames / 6 Comments

This is the second paragraph of Joan Didion’s “Why I Write,” which was originally delivered as a speech at University of California, Berkeley ...

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