The Cake & Pewter Chronicles
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Nurturing Connections Through Baking: A Pumpkin Bread Recipe
The post reflects on the deep emotional connections formed through shared rituals The author reminisces and discusses how comfort rituals can provide hope during challenging times. Through baking, they find solace and the power to foster connections.
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On Health Challenges and Inner Hospitality
“I like the idea of having compassion for the different parts of myself and my experience, feeling different on different days and accepting each of those days as they come. In practice, though …” I live with a chronic health condition, and I’ve only ever made a provisional kind of peace with that aspect of…
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Lessons Learned While Narrating My First Audiobook
Honest to goodness, I considered the project several times and told myself outright, “I can’t do that.” I was aware of telling myself, “I can’t do that,” which I don’t like to do. It’s such a self-defeating thing to say. And yet, I did it anyway. I told myself I couldn’t narrate an audiobook. To…
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Practicing Impatience and “The Monk’s Knife”
“Her friends used to make fun of her for even thinking she could smell power, but she could, and she smelled it on him.” – from “The Monk’s Knife,” a Cake & Pewter story My new cozy fantasy serial is here! “The Monk’s Knife” will publish in two parts on Substack starting today. It will…
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the sacred grounds series
cozy, contemporary, coming of age at thirty
