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Resurrecting The Blog

By: Amira K. May 5, 2022May 4, 2022

Musingsblogging, blogs, craft, exploring, Musings, philosophy, practice, publishing, writing3 Comments

Does anyone still read blog posts? Follow blog authors? Read individual posts that come across your feed that aren’t published by Politico or Mother Jones? Are blogs still a thing? It doesn’t seem like anyone reads blogs anymore. It seems like both readers and authors have abandoned blogs in favor of Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and…

Summer Evenings: A Poem

By: Amira K. September 23, 2019September 23, 2019

Compositions, Poemsblogging, creative, creative writing, dusk, evening, featured, poem, poems, Poetry, reading, summer, summer evenings, writing2 Comments

Sweet is my memory That I am not a morning person– Glorying in the dawn, the revelatory nutty scent of brewing coffee– No. I prefer dusk. Evenings, the onset of dew The fade of heat into something more gentle The smell of dry grass, ready to seed, giving way to rose petal, wet earth. For…

Scars

On the lessons we learn as we age One of the interesting things about getting older is that you learn. You actually do learn. People older than you always talk about this learning experience, but it’s hard to believe until you see it for yourself. You actually learn things about the world as you grow…

A Meditation on Lunch, or, Why You Should Eat Alone Sometimes

I work at home. My partner works at a winery in the area, so except for the rare occasion once a month or so when he comes home midday, I eat lunch alone every day. Lunch is an opportunity to break up the day’s tasks. Usually I try to get a certain amount of editing…

New Book Alert! LITERARY LIBATIONS to Be Published by Skyhorse Press

It is my great pleasure to announce that my forthcoming LITERARY LIBATIONS: WHAT TO DRINK WITH WHAT YOU READ has been contracted for publication by Skyhorse Press in Fall of 2018!

A Minimalist’s Guide to Content Creation

By: Amira K. July 17, 2017June 7, 2018

Musings, Publishing, Writingblogging, content creation, digital minimalism, environmentalism, minimalism, reduce reuse recycle, writing8 Comments

When was the last time someone told you to “do more with less”? How about “think less, live more”? Or, “reduce, reuse, recycle”? When was the last time you saw an article about the tiny home trend? Minimalist design? Or a DIY Pinterest post about reducing consumption via, well, doing it yourself? Minimalism as a trend…

Porous, Chapter Twelve: Waves On The River

By: Amira K. March 24, 2014March 24, 2014

Compositions, Porousblogging, dark, fantasy, fiction, paranormal, Porous, psychology, reading, science, serial, writingLeave a Comment

This is the first chapter in the two-part ending to Section One of POROUS. Next Monday I’ll release the final chapter in the first section, and these two chapters are intended, really, to be one and the same. But I wanted this final scene to be long, and dramatic, and that didn’t really fit the…

Ambition & Abandonment

By: Amira K. January 25, 2014January 25, 2014

Musings, Porous, The Seeds Trilogy, Wineambition, blogging, Porous, The Reaping, The Seeds Trilogy, The Sowing, travel, wine, writing7 Comments

2014 really started out with a bang. My debut novel, The Sowing, has been doing great on Amazon and other online retailers. I finished writing the first draft of the second book in the trilogy, The Reaping, in late December. I’m working on a novella set in the same world, from a different character’s perspective, TBR in…

Blog Awards, Or, Those Whom I Love

By: Amira K. January 2, 2014

Musingsblog awards, blogging, friends, Sunshine award, Wordpress family award, words, writing2 Comments

A great way to ring in 2014 – my good friend Nillu has just nominated me for a blogging award called the “WordPress Family Award”! I have no idea what this means, but I guess I’m in some sort of family now, and I’ve inspired at least one person with all these words I type.…