Category: The Swiss Family Carlson
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Walking Down the Path

As I mentioned last month, we’re all living that fairy tale life. As authors, we’re writing about life, but in encapsulated vignettes that feature our struggles and dark times before we grow and find resolution. We’re basically writing fairy tales. We’re writing about our time in one section of forest before we come back out…
Mindy Carlson
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A Fairy Tale Life

“Why can’t my life be a fairy tale?” It’s the refrain of every heroine in every romance novel and movie. Or—why limit ourselves?—it’s in every novel on the shelf and movie streaming through the interwebs. What they mean is, “I want to skip to the Happily Ever After.” They want to wake up/have their life…
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Creativity Returns

Last time we spoke, I was in a bit of a spiral. Part of that was because it was February. Part of it was the specific ways the world is fracturing under our feet. The world hasn’t gotten better. It’s still fracturing and things are still awful. (Who shares classified military information in an unsecured…
