with love, c.p

  • 📚 From Flash to Epic: Breaking Down the Types of Stories

    Stories come in all shapes and sizes, and each form offers a unique experience to both the writer and the reader. At the shortest end of the spectrum, flash fiction delivers powerful impact with incredible brevity… It’s often under 1,000… Continue reading

    📚 From Flash to Epic: Breaking Down the Types of Stories
  • Misunderstood.

    Sometimes the people you want to be part of your story are only meant to be a chapter. I love when book characters are human. As a lover of fantasy novels and series, I don’t particularly mean human, human. Though,… Continue reading

    Misunderstood.
  • Reading Challenge Update:

    I challenged myself to read 50 books this year. Last year I challenged myself to read 25 and ended up with 40, so this year I shot high to hope for the best. I use Goodreads to help be track… Continue reading

    Reading Challenge Update:
  • Books of 2022

    One of my “year of 2022” goals is to read two books a month which is essentially 24 books in the year. I have recently hit 39 books which I’m really proud about! I technically read one book twice so… Continue reading

    Books of 2022
  • Happenstance | Chapter One

    What if all the love stories were real? What if soul mates really existed but yours was on the other side of the world? Would you cross the oceans to get to them? Would you stay with them despite your… Continue reading

    Happenstance | Chapter One
  • Societal Expectations + Life Update

    I apologize for being MIA the past couple of weeks. I had started this blog post and hoped to get in out a couple of weeks ago but it got a little hectic in the process. Life Update! I’m going… Continue reading

    Societal Expectations + Life Update
  • Reading Challenge: A Summary of The Books I’ve Read This Year

    I have met my reading challenge for this year! My goal was to read twice as much as I did last year, which honestly wasn’t much. I only read five books last year and this year I have read ten!… Continue reading

    Reading Challenge: A Summary of The Books I’ve Read This Year
  • How to Get in the Christmas Spirit

    Christmas is coming at pace. It hit you last week when you heard an ancient Christmas carol crawl through the tiny speakers at the mall or maybe you saw your friend decorating their house for Christmas BEFORE Thanksgiving. Cynicism aside,… Continue reading

    How to Get in the Christmas Spirit
  • Little Girls and Education

    I’m not usually one to review books especially children’s books for that matter but I was so touched at my daughter’s responses to these two books and how these stories create the opportunity of discussion that I just had to… Continue reading

    Little Girls and Education
  • Busy Bee | How to Stop the Brain Buzz

    I have had a problem resting. This isn’t something that is entirely new. I have such a hustler’s mindset that it’s really hard to slow it down at times. I have been putting more effort into my business than ever… Continue reading

    Busy Bee | How to Stop the Brain Buzz