April 4, 2025
Male-presenting runner jogging along a wooded trail - TEXT: Run with the Idea - Fitness for Creatives - James C. Bassett
Published by James C. Bassett at April 4, 2025
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Run With the Idea

Running was always my second-greatest dread; only a visit to the dentist outclassed running. In the most extreme of circumstances, I could perhaps have envisioned myself running from a dentist. If when Anubis weighs my soul I am found wanting, my personal hell will surely involve spending an endlessly repeating Sisyphean eternity running to a dental procedure.
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March 25, 2025
Sepia tone map of Australia - Issy Jinarmo - Jill, Maureen, Narelle - interview by Katie Daniels
Published by Katie Daniels at March 25, 2025
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Issy Jinarmo: Three Writers as One, an Interview

Issy Jinarmo is the creative brain child of playwright and author Jill Baggett, author Narelle Noppert, and journalist and author Maureen Kelly OAM. The three long-distance friends, who have rarely met in person, found their passion and a similar writing style during online forums with the Fellowship of Australian Writers during the Covid shutdown.
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June 13, 2024
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Published by Rita Mock-Pike at June 13, 2024
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A Blessing for Those in Urgent Moments

May the peace of assurance rest upon your shoulders like a soft cloak that warms you in winter. May the song of joy fill your heart with energy like a bird’s call fills the early spring air.
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March 29, 2024
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Published by Susan Carberry at March 29, 2024
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Pilate’s Calvary

I stopped, took a deep breath, and scrambled up to the brow of the hill where I saw a large crowd gathered at the foot of one of the trees. This tree had been chopped into two pieces, with one nailed to the other, forming a crude cross.
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March 13, 2024
Image of eclipse with text: My favorite things, the total solar eclipse, Tandy Malinak
Published by Tandy Malinak at March 13, 2024
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My Favorite Things — The Total Solar Eclipse

Totality lasted less than 3 minutes — such a tiny fraction of time compared to the years I’d spent waiting, hoping, planning, and preparing. It overwhelmed the mind yet further rooted a desire for more at the same time.
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November 20, 2023
Image from TV Show "Vicar of Dibley" with two women, one in labor, and a man dressed as Elvis in background - How an Irreverent Comedy, a Stack of Books, and One Woman Helped Save My Christian Sanity
Published by Rita Mock-Pike at November 20, 2023
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How an Irreverent Comedy, a Stack of Books, and One Woman Helped Save My Christian Sanity

Scroll through the Britbox streaming service. I dare you. For therein you may come across one of the most ridiculous, offensive, delightful, uplifting, confusing religious comedies ever made. To call Dawn French, et. al, genius is an understatement I won’t be guilty of. Rather, I like to refer to the show as what helped save my Christian sanity.
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April 15, 2023
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Published by The MockingOwls at April 15, 2023
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Unknown and Unseen – Triannual Issue

Unintentionally, the MockingOwl Roost family chose this topic, Unknown & Unseen, for our first triannual issue in 2023 for a time in which the family would […]
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November 7, 2022
Being Edited - woman sitting on couch, with laptop in lap, notebook and pen in hand
Published by Rita Mock-Pike at November 7, 2022
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Positivity Corner: Being Edited

But as I have developed my career as a writer and editor myself, I’ve learned to embrace and celebrate being edited. (And I do use this phrase intentionally; when our words are edited, it feels like we are being edited.)
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September 19, 2022
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Published by Rita Mock-Pike at September 19, 2022
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Positivity Corner: Paper Chain of Accomplishments

Each week, I make a to-do list full of things I need to accomplish on any given day. It could be fun things for the MockingOwl Roost, or maybe a tedious task for work. Whatever it is, it goes on the list. And the list is color-coordinated, with “categories” of life in different colors. For example, my grad school work is in green text, while work tasks are in red.
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December 31, 2021
One Year Reflections
Published by Cyndi Lublink, JP DeNeui and Rita Mock-Pike at December 31, 2021
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One Year of Roosting: A Look Back on the First Year of the MockingOwl Roost

For me, being a part of MockingOwl Roost is part of a more significant thing that needed to be done within me, raising from the dead my ability to write.
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December 25, 2021
Published by Cyndi Lublink at December 25, 2021
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Christmas Traditions

I grew up in the ’60s.I believed in Santa Claus.We had a real tree every year with tinsel – real tinsel. And putting it up was a family affair. A tradition that continued into adulthood, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.
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