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    Reading Books, Reading Books Via Audio Books, and My Desire for More Transparency for Online Reviews

    For a few years, I struggled with comparing my reading habits to people I see online. Comparing my reading habits goes back to when I was in elementary school when others read less than I did, but I did have…

    By essieofwho June 13, 2025
  • Blog,  Hobbies,  Lifestyle,  Personal & Comentary,  Social Media

    Updating My Social Media Sites and the Guilt About Abandoning Them

    Earlier this year I decided to start updating all my social media sites more frequently. Before this, I mostly used Twitter to post updates that I have published new posts on my blogs. This time, I decided to try to…

    By essieofwho May 15, 2025
  • Automotive,  Blog,  Lifestyle

    Update on My Vehicle- What’s Going On and What My Next Steps Will Be

    Since February, I’ve had vehicle problems. I mentioned these most recent problems on this blog, but I decided to hold off talking about it until there was a calm in the chaos this issue caused. Today, I’m happy to write…

    By essieofwho April 22, 2025
  • Blog,  Personal & Comentary

    A Life Update- Early April 2025

    For the past few weeks, a lot has happened to me offline. I mentioned some of these things in a pervious life update post, but as per usual, more things happened. Some bad. Some good. And some still make me…

    By essieofwho April 3, 2025
  • Blog,  Personal & Comentary

    Why I Took Almost a Week Off Blogging and How I’m Doing Right Now

    If you are subscribed to my blog or read it frequently, you probably noticed that I missed publishing posts most of last week. Even though I take infrequent and random breaks from publishing, this past week’s missed posts are different.…

    By essieofwho March 10, 2025
  • Blog,  Heath/Safety,  Lifestyle,  Personal & Comentary

    An Update on Eczema and Allergies- February 2025

    It has been many months since I wrote a post about how my eczema and allergies are. Even though I haven’t mentioned or updated about how I’m doing, they are getting better.

    By essieofwho February 25, 2025
  • Blog,  Home,  Lifestyle,  Other,  Personal & Comentary

    Power Outages and What I Think About Living Without Electricity for a Period of Time

    As I write this post, my house is currently without power. (I’m using my laptop to write this post) I won’t go into the nitty, gritty details about how it happened, but there was a car accident that took out…

    By essieofwho January 30, 2025
  • Blog,  Blogmas,  Blogmas 2024,  christmas,  Holidays,  Personal & Comentary

    Christmas 2024 is Looking Happier Than I Expected…

    In a previous post, I talked about how this holiday season isn’t going as expected. Well, it still isn’t. Yet, there is something that happened that makes it better: My relative isn’t getting surgery this week! I was told my…

    By essieofwho December 16, 2024
  • Blog,  Blogmas,  Blogmas 2024,  christmas,  Holidays,  Personal & Comentary

    Christmas 2024 Isn’t Turning Out As Planned…

    To be honest, not every Christmas turns out just as planned. This year, it just feels different. I can’t explain why, but it does. And when I say different, I mean it in a sad and depressing way. It started…

    By essieofwho December 13, 2024
  • Arizona,  Blog,  Personal & Comentary

    5 Reasons I Love (and 5 Reasons Why I Hate) This Month in Arizona- December

    It’s December and it’s time for Blogmas! This year, I decided for the first post of Blogmas to finish the post series I started in January. That means, for the last time, to publish my five reasons I love and…

    By essieofwho December 1, 2024
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Hello! My name is Jessica Anderson, formerly known as Mary Ruth Anderson online, and I am a woman who lives in the Sonoran desert of Arizona. I started this blog in order to encourage myself to fulfill my dreams as well as talk openly about anything I am interested in.

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