Piece of Mind Blog | Jay D. Pearson

PIECE OF MIND

Writings and Musings of Jay D. Pearson

My First Diet

In June, several of us on my swim team went on the whole 30 diet. My wife has dieted with good results several times, but I’d always...

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Jul 12, 20162 min read

Mystery Girl

So far, I haven’t posted anything from my new book that I’ve been working on for the past few months. It’s a young adult fantasy novel,...

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Jun 13, 20163 min read

A Princess Diary (entry 7)

Note: I don’t know how long I’ll continue this, but it’s still fun, so here’s another entry from Eilina’s diary… Read Entry 6 here Arah...

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May 20, 20161 min read

Changing Paths

Last weekend, I found the path I’d always taken to the ocean had been blocked following a wild storm that left driftwood in the grasses,...

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Apr 27, 20161 min read

Finding the Muse

It’s been a rough month of writing, a month spent editing at least as much as writing, and much of my writing time spent talking with...

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Apr 25, 20161 min read

A Princess Diary (Entry 6)

Read Entry 5 here Arah Abu 26 The Mistress of Singers awarded Khariss with the Private Room after what she did this morning’s chapel. The...

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Mar 28, 20162 min read

A Princess Diary (entry 5)

Read Entry 4 Here Arah Abu 9 We sang in the service for the first time today, and Khariss and I both had solos! I’m glad mine was...

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Mar 16, 20162 min read

A Princess Diary (entry 4)

Read Previous Entry here Arah Abu 6 I made it! Khariss made it! They made us wait two days, but the other two girls are being married off...

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Mar 1, 20161 min read

A Princess Diary (entry 3)

read entry 2 here Arah Abu 4 What a trial! We each had to sing three pieces, first for the Mistress of Singers (oh, gods how I hate her!)...

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Feb 25, 20162 min read

A Princess Diary (entry 2)

Read Entry 1 here The following entry is from five-and-one-half months earlier, Arah Sabatu 18 (Year 25), and comes from Princess...

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Feb 13, 20161 min read

A Princess Diary

In an attempt to work out a new character in my book, I have written about her from the point of view of her best friend in a series of...

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Feb 10, 20162 min read

Mortality and the Illusion of Meaning

My friend Norm passed on New Year’s Day. He’d made a surprising comeback from my original post to the point where he had a fantastic...

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Jan 20, 20161 min read

What is Peace?

Driving through Seattle yesterday, I saw another sign proclaiming a desire for peace on earth. A worthy desire, but not likely, outside...

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Jan 6, 20161 min read

The Hypocrisy of Inclusivity

As another Christmas season winds down, and the controversy of what can and can’t be celebrated worsened yet again, it struck me that the...

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Dec 28, 20151 min read

My Love-Hate Relationship With Christmas

Christmas: It’s the most wonderful time of the year, or so the song goes. When I hear the songs, see the lights, or drink my Peppermint...

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Nov 28, 20152 min read

A Life Well Lived

Today looks like it will be my friend Norm’s last day. As I wait for the news I dread, I am thinking about him and what he has meant to...

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Nov 8, 20151 min read

An Introvert in an Extrovert’s World

Being an introvert in an America that only values extroverts sucks. The Meyers-Briggs study of the 1960s estimated 25% as being...

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Oct 21, 20153 min read

Eljena’s Backstory, Part 3

continued from Part 2 “The blows were clearly from assassins and my father was certain that the rest of the family would be targeted. In...

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Oct 14, 20152 min read

Eljena’s backstory, part 2

Continued from here “Poor princess. Other young women like me just had big local parties. She had to be paraded through the streets of...

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Oct 6, 20153 min read

Eljena’s backstory, part 1

Sept 29, 2015. 2:30 AM This all came to me in a dream this morning. It was really this vivid and brutal. It wasn’t Eljena (my world’s...

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Sep 30, 20153 min read