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Winter 2026 Personal Pursuits
For the first three months of 2026, I plan to direct my attention, time & energy towards several creative pursuits. These include (but are not limited to): What About You? What do you have planned to tackle in the coming months? Please tell me about it in the comments below or contact me privately. Maybe we can help or support one another in some way. 🙂 [Revised 1/7/26.]
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Sharing What I Know About the Bible
Two & a half months ago, I shared about an adjustment we recently made in our family dynamic. And as usual, we’re always having to remain flexible. Given the harsh pre-winter weather, I ended up spending more time in the mountains in December than I had originally intended. While that put a pause on my endeavors at the homestead, it enabled me to complete two writing projects that were on my Fall To-do List. Two Bible-Related Writing Projects Messyanic.com is a website of mine that focuses on the Biblical studies I have done over the past 15 years or so. For several years that site sat dormant while I focused…
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Adjusting to a New Family Dynamic
This year marks another major adjustment to our family dynamic. Our Family Dynamic Up Until Now Up until the fall of 2024, our family (of five) has been largely together 24/7. In the late summer of 2019, we bought a second home in the mountains and migrated the bulk of our daily living to up there. Then, in March of 2020, when the world all around us turned upside down, we made our way back to our homestead. With each move, we stayed together, adjusting as necessary to either the environment around us or to the effects of what was going on in the world-at-large. Then, in the summer of…
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Little Free Libraries: Human Connection Venues
A few years ago, our daughter established, built and stocked a Little Free Library at the front edge of our property, because of her personal passion for reading & circulating hard copy books. Thankfully, we’ve had many different people donate books to the little green box perched at our Homestead Stand. I’ve personally enjoyed reading some of them and donated a few of my own. Look Inside! In an attempt to draw attention to this gem in our local neighborhood, I recently took a physical inventory of its contents and published a list to distribute to those who regularly visit us and to those who live nearby. Then, I blogged…
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Officially Licensed Wall Art Decor Decals
Ty has been working hard for the past month building two websites to house all of the officially licensed wall art decor we have had available for sale up until now on Amazon. The sites are WiggleWalls.com and WiggleWallsDecals.com. They are essentially the same, using the same shopping cart service — just different webhosts. While everything is not out there yet, Ty’s made significant progress thus far. Here are just a few of the sets we carry [click set image for more details]: Check the rest of them out. And if you see a particular set that interests you, please let us know. We’ll be happy to send you something of our choosing…
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New Website for Carrie (Not Kelly)
In 2024 I started a Substack under the name CarrieNotKelly as a way for me to build an email list and communicate with those wanting to remain in touch with us via email. Over the past year, I used that platform to share some of what was going on in my personal life. I didn’t really have a publication strategy or even a marketing strategy to bring on new subscribers. I was just feeling my way through it, as I worked heavily on revamping and building out this WiggleCulture website. After taking the last several months off from writing much on-line, I came up with my new human connections plan.…
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What Good Is Following the Lively/Baldoni Case?
I realize the pop culture outlets want to focus on the names of those involved in the Blake Lively vs Justin Baldoni legal drama because that’s what gets most people’s attention, but the people who are actually following this case & reading the documents are operating on a different level than many of the general public. We’re using our critical thinking & reasoning abilities. Given that we each have a voice, we can shape the public narrative going forward. We can make it more about the wrongful actions than the people who are making them. That’s what I want to do anyway — because honestly, nobody I know within my…
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Who Wants to Learn From Me?
I’m not a board-certified teacher, but I have a unique set of experiences, skills, knowledge & understanding, and I believe I have value to offer those who are interested in the kinds of things I have personal experience with, adequate skills in, and a personal knowledge & understanding of. And I personally am able & willing to share with those willing to hear from me. And then, while I have a Bachelors of Science Degree in a particular field of study from an accredited university (from over 30 years ago!), I wouldn’t consider myself an expert in that field — because I haven’t kept up with it, and I’m not…
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The Lively-Baldoni Legal Drama
I’ve been following the legal drama currently taking place between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni for the past three months. And a few weeks ago, I started a new Substack publication called Celebrity Justice to lay out the various court filings as they unfold. Since then, I’ve been debating whether or not to blog about it, too, giving my personal commentary. At first, I just wanted to present the facts to whomever might be interested, but now, this case keeps getting more complex and I don’t have anyone in real life to talk to about this matter…and I want to talk about it.
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Don’t Buy What the Stock Market Is Selling
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