You know when you’re a mom, and you have glorious plans for self-care… but then life happens? Yeah, that. Hey tea fans! This is Heidi’s very first contribution to Empress Tea. She currently resides in…
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JoAnna suffers the realities of raising a new dog. Was it a mistake or will unconditional love prevail? The joys of training, learning, & forgiving. Having a new dog is somewhat similar to having a child,…
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arts & music business culture & community sisterhoodThe Path to Success (or: May Your Next Failure be Glorious)
Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I’ve met people who don’t want to…
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There’s been a lot of depressing stuff in the news lately. Things that are making me feel down on the world and pretty shitty about the human race in general. But it got me…
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I apologize for not “getting real” this time around. Without warning, November descended upon us and because of it I scramble. Like many others I know, I caught fire, struggling to operate on less than six hours sleep and…
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FADE IN: INT. APARTMENT LIVING ROOM – SUNDAY EVENING A modest living room – reasonably tidy except for an area around a 1970’s-era brown couch, which is festooned with unfolded laundry, a laptop, two…
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Little footsteps walking around the room, sweet voices calling out your name, imaginative stories, laughter, giggling, whining, and from time to time—crying. These are the things a teacher hears every day. Hi! I am…
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[This post is inspired by this article about living abroad.] Do you ever wish you could CSI a moment in time? Like if you lost your keys, you could use an app that looks back…
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I’m inspired today by Briana’s myth-busting post, partly because I’m also from a country fond of cultural appropriation (besides adopting any national holiday that involves drinking, we also enjoy claiming people/things from New Zealand as our…
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Halloween was a non event in my house. I worked, picked up my kid and put her to bed. Maybe I watched TV, maybe I was too tired. Since I’ve started working six or…