The saddest noise, the sweetest noise,
The maddest noise that grows, —
The birds, they make it in the spring,
At night’s delicious close.Between the March and April line —
That magical frontier
Beyond which summer hesitates,
Almost too heavenly near.It makes us think of all the dead
That sauntered with us here,
By separation’s sorcery
Made cruelly more dear.It makes us think of what we had,
And what we now deplore.
We almost wish those siren throats
Would go and sing no more.An ear can break a human heart
As quickly as a spear,
We wish the ear had not a heart
So dangerously near.
Wordless Wednesday: July 22nd, 2026

I’ve been looking into freelance writing.
When I was getting my college degree, freelance writing was something that I dabbled in for quite some time… although it seems like the landscape of the Internet has changed so much since then that it’s no longer as viable of a side hustle as it used to be in the early 2000s. Since I have a lot of good memories of doing it around my college coursework, I’ve been putting pitches out to blog advertising and freelance websites that continue to be up in the hopes that I can get some of the individuals working for them to contact me back regarding my inquiries. As aware as I am that “mommy bloggers” have since become content creators and influencers, I would like to continue doing it so that any money generated from it can be put into savings accounts for my family. I haven’t quite decided how I am going to invest money made from content creation and livestreaming, but at this point any money that I can make working from home would be good money since it would allow me to supplement our existing streams of income and better meet my children’s needs.
There is one site in particular that seems to continue to be up, and I have reached out to them a few times now hoping for some kind of response. I’m not sure how active the site is on the face of things since I can’t see very much on the site aside from the actual site and ways to register on it, but I have put out feelers toward that site in particular hoping that my persistence pays off and someone working for the site responds to my inquiries. If they see this post of mine and decide to pick me up that would be amazing!
Music Monday: July 20th, 2026
This is one of my favorite Tales of… songs of all time, and I genuinely mean that. I sincerely love this song.