The interest in constructed languages (conlangs) has exploded in recent years, due in large part, I think, to shows like Game of Thrones that feature several intricately detailed conlangs. But for a long

Amen One day I woke up and realized I’d been doing almost everything “parenty” all wrong. Okay, so it didn’t happen all at once like that but indulge me in a bit of creative license. Once things have turned

Yesterday morning I attended a church service for the first time in probably 20 years or more—and man, oh man, putting that in writing makes it seem even longer. To be totally honest, I didn’t even want

As a new user to steemit it can be quite frustrating at first.  Let me ease the pain with an explanation of what to expect. This is the first thing people might quickly realize.  You write a good

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I never thought I'd need a Ghostbusters reference to explain my teaching philosophy, but here we are. Being a teacher is something I always thought I’d enjoy and be good at, and I’d say that’s been mostly

Hey there, all of you :D We've got some profit taking going on in crypto right now, and I'd like to wish you a happy Saturday, and let you know that everything is a-OK. Huh... I'm getting to that point

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Why is “feminism” a dirty word? Why are so many women who otherwise view themselves as proponents of equality, freedom, and liberty still reluctant to be called “feminists”? Why are so many men who claim

Hello Steemians! I should welcome you here in many languages, but it would be a lot of welcomes so better not. This is my biggest Steemit project so far and I have spent literally dozens of hours on this

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Oh wow, sorry for the confusion! But now that I have your attention, allow me to make it up to you by sharing a listicle about books, and feel free to feast your peepers on my most recent office shelfies:

One of the least intuitive features here on Steemit are the tags. After putting hours of effort to writing a great post, agonising over the title and the first picture, that are going to catch peoples

Hello Minnows! I recently hit 700 followers. It had a lot to do with @kaylinart and @frystikken resteeming one of my posts. I literally jumped 350 followers within the last two weeks. it got me thinking...

I remember when bitcoin was relatively new. Like 5,000 btc/pizza new. As part of the liberty and anarchy communities, talk of mining was all around me; but as a techtarded bookworm, my understanding was

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Welcome aboard the Steemit Express. Oh, you're brand new here? That seems to be happening a lot right now! Let me give you the tour! Steemit is a blogging platform that has it's own currency attached to

I'm currently three posts in and just discovered there's such a thing as intro posts. Makes sense (intro posts, not me introducing myself so belatedly). So here goes - I'm a wife to a veritable saint and

For over a decade, it seemed BioWare could do no wrong. Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Mass Effect trilogy - it was classic game one after the other. Five years