Why I Mourned the Opportunity Rover Why I Mourned the Opportunity Rover By Megan Cutler | February 25, 2019 | Comments 2 comments When I was a kid, my greatest wish was to go to Mars. Astronomy was my first love, you see. For as long as I can remember, I’ve been fascinated with everything that lay beyond the sky. I spent hours studying constellations. What they look like. How to find them. Where their names come from. … Read More Read More
The Exciting Conclusion Of My Epic Tea Countdown The Exciting Conclusion Of My Epic Tea Countdown By Megan Cutler | February 4, 2019 | Comments 0 Comment Last week, I wrote about the DavidsTea advent calendar my husband bought me for December 2018. It’s filled with 24 different bags of tea. And if you follow my blog, you’ll know that tea is one of my favorite things to talk about. After covering the calendar’s first twelve teas, I worried I had droned … Read More Read More
I Counted Down to Christmas With Tea I Counted Down to Christmas With Tea By Megan Cutler | January 28, 2019 | Comments 2 comments It’s been awhile since I wrote about tea. Anyone who follows me on social media will be aware, however, that my husband brought home an extra special gift for me in November. It was the DavidsTea advent calendar for 2018. Davids puts out an advent calendar every year. I always stare longingly at the description, … Read More Read More
What NaNoWriMo Can Do For Experienced Writers What NaNoWriMo Can Do For Experienced Writers By Megan Cutler | January 14, 2019 | Comments 1 comment Anyone who’s ever strung more than ten words of story together has heard of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). It’s been around as long as I’ve been on the Internet. It probably isn’t going anywhere any time soon. For those unfamiliar, NaNoWriMo takes place in November. The idea is to write an entire novel (50,000 … Read More Read More
A List of Goals for 2019! A List of Goals for 2019! By Megan Cutler | January 7, 2019 | Comments 3 comments 2018 was a busy and exciting year. But it pales in comparison with what I have planned for 2019. I usually use my first post of the year to look forward at my goals as well as backwards at my accomplishments. But I had so much to say about 2018, I decided to split the … Read More Read More
Farewell 2018 Farewell 2018 By Megan Cutler | January 1, 2019 | Comments 2 comments I admit, 2018 feels like a blur. The kind where you dig your fingers into a project, get super involved and look up an hour later to find that, actually, three weeks have passed. I set a lot of ambitious goals for 2018, despite my focus on healthy work habits. That meant accepting from the … Read More Read More
An Art A Day – My Inktober 2018 Experience An Art A Day – My Inktober 2018 Experience By Megan Cutler | December 3, 2018 | Comments 2 comments It’s been a long time since I sat down to seriously draw a picture. I used to doodle all the time, and not just in the margins of my classroom notebooks. I used to love drawing pictures of my characters, even if I never considered myself any good. For the first three years of my … Read More Read More
Reading the Universe’s Signs Reading the Universe’s Signs By Megan Cutler | November 19, 2018 | Comments 2 comments Life gets away from you sometimes. You think you’ve got everything well in hand. You’re just trucking along, jumping the hurdles, making things work. And then you hit a speed bump. All the various packages holding all the disorganized building blocks of your life – the ones you keep precariously perched wherever there was room … Read More Read More
The Magic of Fantastic Portal Fantasies The Magic of Fantastic Portal Fantasies By Megan Cutler | November 5, 2018 | Comments 0 Comment Last week I talked about some of my favorite portal fantasies. And until I sat down to write that post, I had no idea how many I had read! As a result, I’d like to take a deeper look at portal fantasies and what makes them so magical. I’ve never been a huge fan of … Read More Read More
Awesome Portal Fantasy Novels that Spark the Imagination Awesome Portal Fantasy Novels that Spark the Imagination By Megan Cutler | October 29, 2018 | Comments 1 comment The first Portal Fantasy I ever read was Yon Ill Wind by Piers Anthony. It’s part of his Xanth series. (Not all of which are portal fantasies, though several include whisking unsuspecting mundane folk into the magical land of puns). In the book, a family vacation goes horribly wrong when a strong wind sweeps their … Read More Read More