Wintersβ Day In
Spilling the tea since 2006. Wanna cuppa?
Conversations on life, faith, stories, and creativity from author and songwriter (and aspiring mermaid) Talena Winters.
Great Sources for Clean Romance and Fantasy Fiction
Struggling to find good, clean books to read? Hereβs a list of resources to point you in the right direction.
Cool Down and Chill Out (Summer Update)
Summer recipes, cool reads, and book-related merch.
Ten Reasons My Life is Great Anyway
My life took an unexpected turn last week that has inserted a great deal of stress into it. This is the result of a reminder to focus on the things that are still great in my life.
Finding Gratitude in a Week of Highs And Lows
Itβs been a strange week. And by βstrange,β I mean it was like there were an extra six really-high highs and kinda-sucky lows stuffed into it without much of a breather between one or the other. So, for posterity, here are the highlights, and a moment to be grateful, too.
7 Favourite Fall Things
Sweaters on Pinterest and other knitting geekery, books, writing, simple comforts, and other joys of autumn. Hereβs whatβs been inspiring me.
7 Things: The Busy Writerβs Edition
Obligatory blog update. Mostly about writing. But also with a motivational Facebook Live video and guest post mention, in case you missed it. ;-)
7 Moments: What's Been Keeping Me Busy
A photo essay of what's been filling up my blog silence.
7 Things: Books for Summer
Okay, so I know that summer is already almost half over. (What? I know, right?) But there are still six more weeks for summer reading--you've got plenty of time! (Six of the seven are indie authors or were published by small presses, and several are by Canadian authors. Can you guess which ones?)
7 Things I'm Grateful For
Wow, so much has happened last week/will be happening this week that I'm going to be posting a couple times this week. For today, because it's Monday, because it's been a while, and because I'm much better at posting these moments on Instagram and Facebook than keeping my blog updated, here's a 7 Things summary of what's been going on.
7 Moments to Remember
A collection of my favourite daily moments in the last one or two weeks.
Pants are optionalβbut theyβre a start
When everything extraneous has been stripped from your life by a loss, and you are left naked and broken, sometimes just getting your pants on in the morning is a big deal. But you look for those moments that you see progress, too. Moving forward, whether in small steps, or giant leaps--in the end, that's the only thing I can really ask of myself.
7 Fabulous Feel-Good Indie Artists (+1)
My top 7 current favourite indie musicians. Meet someone new. :-)
7 Lovely Lemon-Fresh Things
When I think "lemons", I think "summer." And summer is just around the corner, so here are seven lemon-inspired finds to brighten your Saturday.