by Lucy Grecu | Aug 14, 2026 | Mundane Wonder, Perspective Shift, Story Time, Two Cents
Friday! It’s Friday! You know what that means! It means that on Wednesday, I looked at my blog and went, “MMMMM maybe not…” And then I looked at it again on Thursday and went, “MMMMM I still don’t wanna!” And now we’re...
by Lucy Grecu | Jul 29, 2026 | Mundane Wonder, Perspective Shift, Story Time, Two Cents
Dead-end street I grew up in a Spanish colonial revival house. It was the very first house on the right-hand side of a dead-end street. I’d ride my scooter up and down and up and down. It felt a hundred miles long. My best friend at the time lived at the very...
by Lucy Grecu | Jul 15, 2026 | Mundane Wonder, Story Time, TV Talk, Two Cents
When I was little, I didn’t always like being a girl. Not in a hateful way, or a depressed way. I just have an older brother, and he’s really cool, so I used to think that boys were just so much cooler than girls. Boys had things easier and could do things...
by Vella Karman | Jun 19, 2026 | Guest Blog!, Mundane Wonder, Perspective Shift, Two Cents
I’ve never been a gamer (unless Mario Kart Wii counts), but the idea of “side quests” fascinates me. In video games, like Legend of Zelda, side quests are small little tasks that NPCs (Non Player Characters) offer you. Usually it’s something like retrieving their lost...
by Lucy Grecu | May 27, 2026 | The Lies of Overthinking, Two Cents
To my fellow overthinkers: do you ever wish you could just…stay out of the loop? And by loop, I mean the one that we create ourselves. The cycle. For those of you unfamiliar, it goes like this: Become aware of a future thing Initial Panic Talk self off...
by Lucy Grecu | May 21, 2026 | Mundane Wonder, Perspective Shift, Two Cents, Writing
Something magical happens when you’re eleven. Something magical, and something ordinary. What happens is that you pick up a book and you vanish inside it. The world becomes your world and the characters become your closest friends. At least, that’s what...
Oh, I love that song! Unlike my friends from The Company, though, I never heard it in the context of…
So glad to hear that, Mattie! You're welcome for the reminder.
Hi Judy! I'll be staying in Cambridge :-)
I have the same Neverland feeling about Regina Spektor's "The Call". It was SUCH a powerful song to me when…
Wow Lucy, this hits home for me! I hate endings and uncertain futures. But thinking about eternity is a blessing…