Bittersweet Paradox
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This week’s Writing Club entry & prompt is brought to you by the creative alchemy birthed from slowing down.
“Present day me: I journal a lot about my family. Perhaps it’s because it’s my roots. It’s where I come from. As a person...”
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“Present day me: I journal a lot about my family. Perhaps it’s because it’s my roots. It’s where I come from. As a person...”
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December 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
This week’s Writing Club entry & prompt is brought to you by the creative alchemy birthed from slowing down.
“Present day me: I journal a lot about my family. Perhaps it’s because it’s my roots. It’s where I come from. As a person...”
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“Present day me: I journal a lot about my family. Perhaps it’s because it’s my roots. It’s where I come from. As a person...”
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This week’s Writing Club entry & prompt is brought to you by the things that make me feel best in my life.
“Present day me: This sounds really wonderful and I’m still proud of myself for creating this life I wanted.”
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“Present day me: This sounds really wonderful and I’m still proud of myself for creating this life I wanted.”
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December 11, 2025 at 7:55 PM
This week’s Writing Club entry & prompt is brought to you by the things that make me feel best in my life.
“Present day me: This sounds really wonderful and I’m still proud of myself for creating this life I wanted.”
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“Present day me: This sounds really wonderful and I’m still proud of myself for creating this life I wanted.”
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The Bittersweet Paradox project has a new sister project where Andrea teams up with Jessica (from Capitalism for Good Ep 24) to learn how to open her own purpose-driven refill store!
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December 10, 2025 at 6:34 PM
The Bittersweet Paradox project has a new sister project where Andrea teams up with Jessica (from Capitalism for Good Ep 24) to learn how to open her own purpose-driven refill store!
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This week’s Writing Club entry & prompt is brought to you by my love of snow.
“I love when it first snows. The world looks bright, even when it’s cloudy.“
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“I love when it first snows. The world looks bright, even when it’s cloudy.“
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December 5, 2025 at 5:31 PM
This week’s Writing Club entry & prompt is brought to you by my love of snow.
“I love when it first snows. The world looks bright, even when it’s cloudy.“
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“I love when it first snows. The world looks bright, even when it’s cloudy.“
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This week’s Writing Club entry & prompt is brought to you by running. That’s right: running.
“It’s been empowering and reassuring to realize that the actual moment or feeling is fleeting, especially compared to how much I was...”
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“It’s been empowering and reassuring to realize that the actual moment or feeling is fleeting, especially compared to how much I was...”
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November 20, 2025 at 8:11 PM
This week’s Writing Club entry & prompt is brought to you by running. That’s right: running.
“It’s been empowering and reassuring to realize that the actual moment or feeling is fleeting, especially compared to how much I was...”
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“It’s been empowering and reassuring to realize that the actual moment or feeling is fleeting, especially compared to how much I was...”
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The Bittersweet Paradox Writing Club is your low-stakes dose of journaling and writing prompts meant to get your thinker thinking again.
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November 17, 2025 at 5:35 PM
The Bittersweet Paradox Writing Club is your low-stakes dose of journaling and writing prompts meant to get your thinker thinking again.
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This week’s Writing Club entry & prompt is brought to you by when one of my best friends helped me move halfway across the country.
“Present day me: Everything about these memories makes me smile and I’m forever grateful for Emily for agreeing to do...“
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“Present day me: Everything about these memories makes me smile and I’m forever grateful for Emily for agreeing to do...“
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November 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM
This week’s Writing Club entry & prompt is brought to you by when one of my best friends helped me move halfway across the country.
“Present day me: Everything about these memories makes me smile and I’m forever grateful for Emily for agreeing to do...“
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“Present day me: Everything about these memories makes me smile and I’m forever grateful for Emily for agreeing to do...“
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This week’s Writing Club entry & prompt is brought to you by my dad teaching me to drive a stick shift for the very first time.
“The first is him teaching me to tie my shoes in the small apartment in Blue Springs. The second is...”
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“The first is him teaching me to tie my shoes in the small apartment in Blue Springs. The second is...”
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November 6, 2025 at 5:17 PM
This week’s Writing Club entry & prompt is brought to you by my dad teaching me to drive a stick shift for the very first time.
“The first is him teaching me to tie my shoes in the small apartment in Blue Springs. The second is...”
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“The first is him teaching me to tie my shoes in the small apartment in Blue Springs. The second is...”
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November 2, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Existing simultaneously between the darkness and the light
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November 2, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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This week’s Writing Club entry & prompt is brought to you by taking back the word “fine.”
“For now, I feel all of the things I described above and am happy and grateful to feel them in the present moment (or as close to the present...”
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“For now, I feel all of the things I described above and am happy and grateful to feel them in the present moment (or as close to the present...”
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October 30, 2025 at 4:10 PM
This week’s Writing Club entry & prompt is brought to you by taking back the word “fine.”
“For now, I feel all of the things I described above and am happy and grateful to feel them in the present moment (or as close to the present...”
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“For now, I feel all of the things I described above and am happy and grateful to feel them in the present moment (or as close to the present...”
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Everyone knows you can save money on books by checking them out at the library instead of buying them. But did you know that libraries can help you save on other things too?
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October 21, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Everyone knows you can save money on books by checking them out at the library instead of buying them. But did you know that libraries can help you save on other things too?
This week’s Writing Club entry & prompt is brought to you by extended quality time spent with my parents as an adult.
“Present day me: I used to love reading when I was younger, but was out of the habit of it before this time. I’m happy...
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“Present day me: I used to love reading when I was younger, but was out of the habit of it before this time. I’m happy...
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October 17, 2025 at 4:35 PM
This week’s Writing Club entry & prompt is brought to you by extended quality time spent with my parents as an adult.
“Present day me: I used to love reading when I was younger, but was out of the habit of it before this time. I’m happy...
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“Present day me: I used to love reading when I was younger, but was out of the habit of it before this time. I’m happy...
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This week’s Writing Club prompt is brought to you by fighting embarrassment, failures, and fears with logic.
Present day me: “I’m avoiding the question…” haha that’s exactly what I’m good at. I’m proud of myself for finally getting to address the...
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Present day me: “I’m avoiding the question…” haha that’s exactly what I’m good at. I’m proud of myself for finally getting to address the...
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October 10, 2025 at 6:48 PM
This week’s Writing Club prompt is brought to you by fighting embarrassment, failures, and fears with logic.
Present day me: “I’m avoiding the question…” haha that’s exactly what I’m good at. I’m proud of myself for finally getting to address the...
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Present day me: “I’m avoiding the question…” haha that’s exactly what I’m good at. I’m proud of myself for finally getting to address the...
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This week’s Writing Club prompt is brought to you by a writing workshop hosted by one of my favorite authors.
Your turn (but only if you feel like it): Make a list of what you did today. Does that list look like you’re living more in fear or in curiosity?
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Your turn (but only if you feel like it): Make a list of what you did today. Does that list look like you’re living more in fear or in curiosity?
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October 2, 2025 at 10:15 PM
This week’s Writing Club prompt is brought to you by a writing workshop hosted by one of my favorite authors.
Your turn (but only if you feel like it): Make a list of what you did today. Does that list look like you’re living more in fear or in curiosity?
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Your turn (but only if you feel like it): Make a list of what you did today. Does that list look like you’re living more in fear or in curiosity?
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This week's #WritingClub prompt is brought to you by our favorite things. Because it can't all be gripes and low moments vented in crinkly journal pages.
Your turn (but only if you feel like it): What's your favorite thing from last week?
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Your turn (but only if you feel like it): What's your favorite thing from last week?
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September 25, 2025 at 2:52 PM
This week's #WritingClub prompt is brought to you by our favorite things. Because it can't all be gripes and low moments vented in crinkly journal pages.
Your turn (but only if you feel like it): What's your favorite thing from last week?
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Your turn (but only if you feel like it): What's your favorite thing from last week?
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This week’s Writing Club prompt is brought to you by the phrase “tomorrow will be better.”
Your turn (but only if you feel like it): What’s been getting under your skin lately? And what do you try to do to get past those things?
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Your turn (but only if you feel like it): What’s been getting under your skin lately? And what do you try to do to get past those things?
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September 18, 2025 at 5:45 PM
This week’s Writing Club prompt is brought to you by the phrase “tomorrow will be better.”
Your turn (but only if you feel like it): What’s been getting under your skin lately? And what do you try to do to get past those things?
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Your turn (but only if you feel like it): What’s been getting under your skin lately? And what do you try to do to get past those things?
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September 12, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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This week’s Writing Club prompt is brought to you by a real unwanted visit from the norovirus bringing an unhealthy dose of “everything sucks” and “I just want to sleep for days until this is all over.”
And the way it goes, you’ll wake up feeling…
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And the way it goes, you’ll wake up feeling…
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September 12, 2025 at 1:29 AM
This week’s Writing Club prompt is brought to you by a real unwanted visit from the norovirus bringing an unhealthy dose of “everything sucks” and “I just want to sleep for days until this is all over.”
And the way it goes, you’ll wake up feeling…
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And the way it goes, you’ll wake up feeling…
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I’m proudly the type of person that will write something on a to-do list just to feel the satisfaction of crossing it off. I’m also the kind of person that will journal the about the boring things that I’ve done so I can look back to see those small accomplishments.
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September 4, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I’m proudly the type of person that will write something on a to-do list just to feel the satisfaction of crossing it off. I’m also the kind of person that will journal the about the boring things that I’ve done so I can look back to see those small accomplishments.
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This week's Writing Club entry & prompt starts as an attempt to get over some regular, run of the mill, lack of inspiration with a side of writers block. My go-to remedy is to list what I ate last (or what I'm currently eating) and lo & behold that morphs into more.
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August 29, 2025 at 11:09 PM
This week's Writing Club entry & prompt starts as an attempt to get over some regular, run of the mill, lack of inspiration with a side of writers block. My go-to remedy is to list what I ate last (or what I'm currently eating) and lo & behold that morphs into more.
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Today’s #WritingClub entry & prompt starts with a throwback to my 35th birthday and the existential musing that only a milestone birthday can fuel. It’s a bittersweet paradox of a celebration mixed with a full-life reflection of what came before.
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August 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Today’s #WritingClub entry & prompt starts with a throwback to my 35th birthday and the existential musing that only a milestone birthday can fuel. It’s a bittersweet paradox of a celebration mixed with a full-life reflection of what came before.
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Does anyone else sometimes just make lists in their #journal when it feels too overwhelming to focus on anything else?
...Just me?
This week's #JournalClub entry is brought you by a day when I was determined to pull myself out of a rut and get things moving.
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...Just me?
This week's #JournalClub entry is brought you by a day when I was determined to pull myself out of a rut and get things moving.
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August 14, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Does anyone else sometimes just make lists in their #journal when it feels too overwhelming to focus on anything else?
...Just me?
This week's #JournalClub entry is brought you by a day when I was determined to pull myself out of a rut and get things moving.
#journalsky #writersky #writingclub
...Just me?
This week's #JournalClub entry is brought you by a day when I was determined to pull myself out of a rut and get things moving.
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This week's #WritingClub prompt is brought to you by a big lesson learned way back when I was a freshman in high school that I still think about today.
What lesson did you learn the hard way back when you were young?
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What lesson did you learn the hard way back when you were young?
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August 10, 2025 at 3:25 PM
This week's #WritingClub prompt is brought to you by a big lesson learned way back when I was a freshman in high school that I still think about today.
What lesson did you learn the hard way back when you were young?
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What lesson did you learn the hard way back when you were young?
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