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Linguaphile
I started learning my second language (Spanish) in my sophomore year of high school. I actually took two semesters of Latin before that which was my first introduction to learning a foreign language, but fluency wasn’t ever the goal for Latin. It taught me how to learn to pronounce words and sounds that felt unfamiliar…
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Softening
TW: this blog discusses body image issues, self harm, eating disorders, and diet culture. Please take care of yourself and skip it if you need to. 🙂 A few days ago I was scrolling through Instagram and I came across a post from Teri Hofford. She’d posted a beautiful photoshoot of herself with no clothes…
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The Slow Settle
There’s a specific kind of upheaval that comes with moving your entire life across countries and oceans. Obviously you leave behind friends and jobs and sometimes family, but there are also smaller, quiet things you grieve with each move. Your favorite coffee shop or bookstore, or hobbies you picked up in your last home that…
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Up ‘Til Now
Okay. Wow. Here we go. This website and blog have been a long time coming. Like, decades long. I’ve been writing creatively as an outlet since I was in middle school, maybe earlier. I always had an innate sense for how to put sentences and paragraphs together, even before I knew what adjectives or gerund…
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Welcome
Welcome, friends. This space will be where I share my thoughts, stories, and past works as a way to keep them in a centralized location and put them out into the world. I hope you all enjoy this virtual rolodex of my brain. I’m so happy you’re here.
Ladner Stroud 