[Dear Readers, I’m reposting this one for its publication week. You can check out the author @mazeyeddings on Instagram and @SMPromance will bring you to the publisher. Enjoy!] title: Late Bloomer author: Mazey Eddings publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin publication date: April 16, 2024 pages: 400 peppers: 3 (on this scale) warnings: talk of drug use, mean parents,…
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277. Why Be Explicit
The photo above has nothing to do with this week’s topic. It’s a photo my husband made of our dog using AI. I thought about what kind of image could accompany this post’s title and realize that “explicit” has come to mean something very different from its original definition. Since my idea doesn’t connect to…
276. Why Laugh (Guest Post)
[Carita here: Hi, Readers. The photo above should give you a sense of guest blogger Sarah Zarbock’s spirit and humor. Holding a cow was on her bucket list––maybe why make and complete a bucket lists should become the topic of a future Why Wednesday––so here she is holding a cow. I’m thrilled to be able…
275. Why Engineer for Good
In November, I got to go on a trip I’ll probably write several posts about. Here’s the first of them. I took the photo above in the salt mines in Wieliczka, Poland. (If you want to see many other photos I took on that tour, please feel free to check out my Instagram post-my account…
274. Why You Know Yourself Best
[Before I get into the actual topic, I want to talk about the photo above. Our dog, Tuukka, passed away in January. He would have been eleven next month. We loved having him in our lives. I selected the photo above because I have been thinking about him and wanted to share a photo that…
273. Why You Don’t Know Yourself
It’s true, what it says above, that you know yourself better than other people know you. However, I posit that you don’t know yourself well enough yet. Here’s what I’m thinking. I’ve heard people cop out of trying to do things by saying, “I know myself, I won’t ever…” You can fill in the ending…
272. Why Their Idea Was a Win-Win-Win
I vividly remember the dress I got to wear when my beginner ice-skating class had roles in Robert Crown’s Nutcracker on Ice circa 1978. The dress was white with a three-tiered skirt that billowed out for as long as I could spin fast enough. I believe my group were all sugar plum fairies, but I…
271. Why It’s Not about the Hockey
This morning, I skated my last practice of the 2023-2024 winter season as a Salisbury Stinger. At this point, I’ve been on the adult women’s ice hockey team for close to twenty years, and what a couple of decades they have been! As a team, we’ve been through a lot. In early March, 2020, I hosted…
270. Why Pre-Pay
The photo above comes from an article about the importance of good communication (a skill that necessitates avoiding redundancies). My post doesn’t have anything to do with the article, but I do enjoy the humor of the image. (If you want to read the article, you can click the photo; it’s a link.) Instead, I’ve…
269. Why The Flame and the Flower
I recently read, on lots of podcasts’ recommendations, Kathleen Woodiwiss’s The Flame and the Flower. Published in 1972, the book “revolutionized the historical romance genre.” As a student, avid reader, and future author of romance, I thought it would be interesting and informative to read the book that started the “bodice-ripper” genre. I was right….