Crafting Paranormal Stories: Lessons from Scriptwriting
Reflecting on my writing journey while crafting the second book in the Paranormal Defense Series. I discuss the challenges of moving from concise scriptwriting to expansive storytelling. Despite obstacles, I remain committed to developing a richer narrative in the ongoing…
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Battling Insurance: My Fight for Essential Female Health Care
Dealing with health insurance is frustrating, especially over a needed surgeries. The way United Health Care views medical care as a bureaucratic is a failure. Despite extensive medical documentation, United Health Care deems the procedure elective instead of preventative.
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Loss and Love: Cherished Heirlooms
Reflecting on the emotional impact of losing two cherished heirlooms. Both losses instilled feelings of guilt and sorrow, leading to lessons about responsibility and memory.
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Why Crime and Punishment Left Me More Than Hopeless
Some classics stay with you because they inspire you. Others haunt you for entirely different reasons. Nearly twenty years after reading Crime and Punishment, I still remember the suffocating darkness, the hopelessness, and the feeling that there was nothing worth…
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Reclaiming Joy: Millennials and the Battle Against Burnout
The piece reflects on a time before commercialization and AI dominated life. While exploring more than just nostalgia for a more engaged and fulfilling existence. The post critiques current societal pressures on youth, emphasizing the importance of hands-on hobbies and…
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Healing Through Faith: A Journey Back to God
A Lenten social media detox sparked a powerful journey of faith, friendship, and healing, leading to A Quiet Walk with God, a guided journal for overcoming anxiety, heartbreak, and reconnecting with God
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About Me
Hi, I’m Alexandra Diane.
In my previous life, I was a news editor, editor; I became a full-time mom in 2017 and knew I needed a change. I left the news world and became a T.V. production teacher. Now I’m well-rested, sharing my love and passion for video production with my students while enjoying every holiday and the entire summer off with my three children.
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- Crafting Paranormal Stories: Lessons from Scriptwriting
- Battling Insurance: My Fight for Essential Female Health Care
- Loss and Love: Cherished Heirlooms
- Why Crime and Punishment Left Me More Than Hopeless
- Reclaiming Joy: Millennials and the Battle Against Burnout
- The Dark Side of Social Media: Fasting from Noise, Not Just Apps
- Navigating A.I. Identity: The Evolution of Chatbots and Humanity
- Finding Creativity After Postpartum Depression: Teaching, Burnout, Healing, and the Return of a Lost Spark
- Support House Bill 1149: Essential Recess for Middle Schoolers
- Writing with Passion: Overcoming AI Temptations
- Lessons on Resilience
- Stop Wishing Death on Political Opponents: Why Violent Rhetoric Destroys Us
- Struggles of a Teacher: Managing Disappointment and Disrespect
- Confronting AI in Education: Teachers vs. Technology’s Role
- Family Adventure in Cooperstown: Baseball, Vlogging, and Fun
- Finding Peace: A Journey Through Personal Faith Exploration
- Redefining ‘Having It All’: Finding True Happiness
- Navigating the Gray
- Teaching is a work of heart: How One Teacher Transformed My Professional Journey.
- Inkful Wishes
- Balancing Life as a Busy Mom and Aspiring Writer
- Post three years in the making: Car Accident.
- All about Spookables
- Passport please
- Kevlar and Camo
- Angelic Findings Summary
- Do I vote?
- My Career has never been one direction
- Shower Thoughts: Favorite Director
- A Very Monday Monday
- Core Memory: Garden Gate
- Day 18: Hello Saturday
- Day 11: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Do what terrifies you
- The Art of Complaing
- The monster within
- Family Traditions
- Leisure Time
- Well, I’m not okay.
- One who comes to save warriors
- All the foods…
- Emotional Attachment
- As a Mother, Educator, or Writer?
- Life Never Ending
- More than could… I will
- My past owes nothing to my future, but the present appreciates her
- The Greatest Gift: Safety
- Playtime: Mother/Daughter Bonding
- Gypsy’s Heart
- Holiday Isolation
- There are monsters
- D is for Depression not Demonic possession
- Day 33: Tea Party
- Day 35: Downward Spiral
- Day 28: The trouble with meeting a unicorn
- Day 25: Big brother, middle sister, baby brother
- Day 27: Four months postpartum
- Day 20: Explaining puberty to a 5-year-old
- Day 11: Not all those who wander are lost
- Day 10: Editing Angelic Findings
- Day 9: Aphantasia, past life regression, and a movie script
- Day 8: Fighting Imposter Syndrome
- Day 5: Sea World
- Day 3: From delivery to postpartum preeclampsia: Sometimes a headache is more than just a headache.
- Finding my calm
- Pregnant at 35
- Changes in Kindergarten
- Undone… My mental state, not the sweater song
- Moderna Vaccine and my body’s response
- Writing update
- For the love of food
- No Social Media During Lent
- Publishing Errors and Fighting Dyslexia
- Why I probably should never give blood again
- Ravenmaster: A labor of love and torment
- Life happens when you’re making plans
- Imposter Syndrome: Acknowledging the problem and embracing the change
- Assault shouldn’t stay in Vegas.
- Over Coming Body Dysmorphia and Postpartum
- 4 years ago I stepped onto a plane and my life changed
- Delicious Gluten-Free Food
- Hurricane Warning
- Dating With Children
- Keeping Kids Active
- Encouraging Babies to Talk
- A House Divided with a Step-Mom in the Middle
- How to Find a Pediatrician
- Screen Time A Double Edge Sword
- Toddler in the Bed
- Chronic Illnesses are better with Friends who are Nurses
- The Story of Us: A Dark Beginning
- My not so secret love…Food
- Pet Peeves
- In Ten Years I’ll be…
- I wont call her beautiful
- I won’t do that when I have kids
- Being Fully Present
- I’ve become a different writer
- New to Motherhood
- Well, That Didn’t Go As Planned…Adelyn’s Birth