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24-hour cafes, a severe mercy, alaska, all kinds of rain, ambitious reading lists, angsty driving music, anne sexton, atomic coffee, attachment parenting, banned books, being overwhelmed at powell's, best american short stories, billy collins, bites of dark chocolate, bookstores, breastfeeding, bubble baths, buying too many journals, changing seasons, christianity, christmas, coffee, coffee shops, college, concordia college, cooking, copenhagen, creativity, crooked fingers, dark winter nights, driving with my husband, dwelling in possibility, early mornings, education, english, fargo, fish, flowers, foreign languages, friday night gin&tonics, growing old with matt, heavy silent snowfall, hiking, history, holden evening prayer, holiday drinks, ireland, irish accents, james joyce, joan didion, john steinbeck, kissing, language, late-night moments of clarity, letters, libraries, lists, literary discoveries, literature, liturgy, living with great joy, louise erdrich, love, loving my husband forever, mad men on netflix, madeleine l'engle, margaret atwood, marriage, martin luther, minneapolis, minnesota, montana, moorhead, morning fog, mountains, music, my beautiful children, my family, my goofy little dog, my husband's music collection, mystery, natural birth, new books, north dakota, norway, notebooks, notes scribbled in margins, obsessively cleaning my house, oceans, old books, old school sesame street, our first lovely house, passionately fighting censorship, pat conroy, pens, people-watching in airports, poetry, prairies, prayer, psychology, pugs, questions, rainer maria rilke, reading, reading to my daughter, rivers, roadtrips, rocky mountain roasting company, seattle, shakespeare, slowly sipping red wine, snow, soaring trumpet music, solitude, stories, storms, strangers, suzannah and isaac, swimming in lakes, sylvia plath, t.s. eliot, tea, teaching, texture, that sweet mountain air, the creative process, the journey through parenthood, the journey through pregnancy, the leaf and bean, the pacific northwest, theodore roethke, theology, those addictive moleskines, time, tori amos, travel, truth revealed through fiction, twin peaks, u2, virginia woolf, washington, water, william butler yeats, william faulkner, winter, words, writing alone in coffeeshops, writing my guts out

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allstory, autumnwalkr, bugorama, commonplace_book, curieuse, elucidate_this, filmstar, hellosarah, justmadabout, kaerie, little_song, mountainbridges, need4cognition, posterityofthedesert, prairiemama, rainswolf, redwellies, spacefem, starlakitty, steforama, wundermuffin, yiskah

dailybecoming, decemberthirty, erika, kairabear, thesaturdaygirl

alexandrit, thesarahscope, yeahkaren, zipotle

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