First, let us tune in to a conversation inside my brain, already in progress… Irrational Side of My Brain: “January is slipping away and we haven’t even blogged about our 2026 reading goals yet!” Rational Side of My Brain: “It’s January 7th. Chill. Also, no one is currently sitting at their computer anxiously waiting forContinue reading “Balanced Between the Pages: My Past, Present, and Future Reading”
Author Archives: Carie Juettner
12 Joys of 2025
I’m grateful that 2025 gave me so many reasons to celebrate. I’m even more grateful that I’ve learned to look for celebrations everywhere—in the small, the everyday, the unexpected. Here are 12 moments that I celebrated this year. There are many more, some larger, some less noticeable. It is not a competition. These are theContinue reading “12 Joys of 2025”
Celebrating the Solstice & Embracing the Liminal
My new favorite word is liminal. Not only is “liminal” a lovely word to say and feel on the lips, reminding me a bit of that scene in Donnie Darko, about “cellar door” being the most beautiful combination of words in the English language, but I love its meaning too. My old red dictionary definesContinue reading “Celebrating the Solstice & Embracing the Liminal”
Carie Juettner 