I’m Back on YouTube!
I took three months off YouTube to focus on my written blog here and just because I was feeling a bit burned out making videos. Now I’m going to focus on my toy and children’s book channel (Maranda’s...
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Some Good and Bad Things…
(The Pixabay image above doesn’t have anything to do with the subject of the blog post, but I thought it was cool-looking!) Things have been busy lately. A few good things have happened and a few...
View ArticleMay 2018 My First Reading Club Subscription Box Review!
This month I did the May 2018 My First Reading Club unboxing and review on my YouTube channel (Maranda’s Toys & Books), so I figured I would post the video here in case anyone wanted to see which...
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Dysfunctional Family: My Mom Married My High School Friend
Ok, so in the past I already wrote a more serious post about the trauma I experienced when my mom ended up marrying the first guy I ever brought home (read it here). He was a friend of mine, two years...
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Things I Would REALLY Like to Say to My Past Abusers
I don’t owe you anything! I’m nothing like you. You don’t own me and you never did. You deserve what you got. Sometimes I feel nothing for you. You are at fault for so much. You have no one to blame...
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Artemis, the Greek Goddess Who Kicks Butt
Although I am an agnostic when it comes to the actual physical existence of any kind of God or divine power, I am drawn to pagan spirituality. I love their connection to the earth, seasons, and the...
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My Mother Helped a Guy to Stalk Me
Lately I’ve been dealing with a lot of resentment and anger towards my mother. To explain why, let me share a specific incident that kind of illustrates why I am upset. When I was 14/15, my mother...
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I Don’t Owe Anyone Anything
Yesterday I had rather a bit of a breakthrough moment. Now, to most people with healthy backgrounds and relationships, this will likely be a bit of a “duh” moment, but to people like me who were...
View ArticleVideo: My Mom Sent Me an Easter Care Package!
Check out the cute stuff my mom sent to me for an Easter care package! She did really good this year! It definitely helped cheer me up since I had been feeling pretty lousy lately between my depression...
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Complicated Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day always creates such a barrage of mixed emotions for me. There was a lot of trauma, abuse, mental illness, and foolish decisions that marked my childhood. My mother was far from a perfect...
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