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An End, A Beginning

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At the end of last winter I bought myself cross country skiing gear. I had a hysterectomy between Yule and New Years in 2024/2025, so there wasn't any point in getting geared up during the season, but I wanted to be ready for this winter. This winter has been a little wild with house renovations… Continue reading An End, A Beginning

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Twilight Week Media – Check Them Out

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It's the week between Solstice/Yule/Christmas and the New Year, which means it's that weird twilight zone time where nothing means anything, everything is dark and sleepy (at least for me), and work is a series of super productive bursts followed by long fallow periods of brain rot. So far this week I've managed to read… Continue reading Twilight Week Media – Check Them Out

A Time for Rest
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A Time for Rest

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It's dark in Minnesota most of the time* these days. The sun comes up after 7:30am and sets by 4:30pm as we roll toward the winter solstice this weekend. Today is weirdly warm: everything is melting and rainy out, which seems odd and ominous. Not because of global warming, necessarily, although that's an overriding issue,… Continue reading A Time for Rest

Review: Hekate The Witch by Nikita Gill
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Review: Hekate The Witch by Nikita Gill

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Ok, this book happened a bit by accident or divine intervention. I was at a Barnes & Noble looking for Yule cards and needed a quick break. The section by the restrooms in that BN is NOT poetry nor mythology: it's political non-fiction, but this book was eye level on the shelf facing me as… Continue reading Review: Hekate The Witch by Nikita Gill

For The Lake is Cold and Full of Monsters
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For The Lake is Cold and Full of Monsters

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A few weeks ago I went on a quick girls' trip up the North Shore to a gorgeously quiet cabin resort. Part relaxing-few-days before the insanity of the holidays hits, part traditional fall writing inspiration trip, we holed up in a two bedroom wooden cabin with no TV, no kids or spouses, and no concrete… Continue reading For The Lake is Cold and Full of Monsters

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Don’t Threaten Me With a Good Time

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The other day I got an email titled "Gen X Women: The Latchkey Crones" and honestly, that sounds like murder mystery series I'd read. Or watch. Preferably set in some small village somewhere, although it'd more likely be tired-as-fuck middle aged women who add murder solving to managing teenage dramas, the usual everyday life partner… Continue reading Don’t Threaten Me With a Good Time

Review: The Wandering Queen: A Novel of Dido by Claire Heywood
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Review: The Wandering Queen: A Novel of Dido by Claire Heywood

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I received an ARC of this novel from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review. Powerful mortal women of Greek and Roman myth rarely fared well against the masculine prowess of the Big Damn Heroes on their divinely blessed/cursed quests, even Queen Dido, who was a legendary leader long before she had the...misfortune...of kindly assisting… Continue reading Review: The Wandering Queen: A Novel of Dido by Claire Heywood

The Last 2025 Book Signing: B&N!
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The Last 2025 Book Signing: B&N!

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Photo is the cover of Defying Shadows captioned with "Book Signing with Jessica Settergren: "Defying Shadows: For Witches and Pagans Battling Cancer and Chronic Illness" SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2025 2:00PM CT Author Event Not long ago I wrote about steps to success, and how getting a book I wrote on the shelf at a Barnes… Continue reading The Last 2025 Book Signing: B&N!

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Cancellation Apologies

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Due to a death in the family, I'm unable to attend the Women & Spirituality Conference tomorrow in Rochester, Minnesota. I'm sorry to miss it, and I'm terribly sorry if you were planning on attending my time slot, but the funeral is this weekend. The best prepared plans are nothing to Fate, schedule. May all… Continue reading Cancellation Apologies

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Definitions of Success

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Twenty-*cough* and some years ago, I'd moved from my hometown to a suburb of Minneapolis for a job and desperately wished I could move back. I spent the first eight months or so leaving from work at 3:30 on Friday to drive home, coming back after 10 on Sunday night for the next work week.… Continue reading Definitions of Success