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Time to Blow Off the Dust
Remember three years ago when I said I was going to restart this blog, made a post about Restaurant Week, and disappeared again? It turns out, I may have been optimistic about my ability to return to blogging. A few factors were at play. One is that the job I was working at the time…
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Uhm… hi!
Some time back when I was working as a content manager/office assistant for a small business owner, she shared with me something someone told her, which was that when you’ve been away from your blog for a while, you shouldn’t make excuses, you should just resume like nothing happened. I get that, I guess, especially…
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Goodbye Maggie
A sad post script to last week’s post. Our sick little Maggie dog did not recover from her holiday illness. We took her to the vet ER on Christmas day and made the difficult decision to have her put to sleep on Wednesday. Maggie was diagnosed with lymphoma just a week after Chris, the corgis,…
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Happy-Ish Holidays
They say that one of the biggest problems with social media is that it inspires you to compare your life to the glamorized version of your friends’ lives. Perhaps nothing brings that out more than the holiday season. My Instagram and Facebook foods are overflowing with holiday posts. “Here’s my beautiful Christmas tree!” “Wow, what…
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I love tea
You know what I love? No matter the weather, I love a good hot cup of tea. Although I may get chased out of Seattle for saying this, I’ve never developed a taste for coffee. But tea? I can drink tea any time of the day. Hot, iced, black, green, herbal, I love it all.…
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What Life is Like When You Have Corgis
Did you know that I have two corgis? If you don’t have corgis yourself, you may have wondered what it’s like to have these wonderful, zany little dogs in your life. You may be wondering if you should add a corgi or two to your own family. Let me share a few of my own…
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Who is The Displaced Cactus?
Meet the writer behind The Displaced Cactus! Hello! My name is AJ, and this is my blog. I’ve been maintaining a dance blog for years, but it’s very much shifted to be geared towards my fellow dancers as the primary audience. So I thought it was about time I started a personal blog to…
The Displaced Cactus
Adventures of a former desert dweller transplanted to Washington