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The Woman Who Wrote Spells on Parking Tickets

It started, as most things do, with annoyance. Bea had been working for the city’s parking enforcement department for eleven years. She didn’t love ...
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Your Fantasy Job in an Alternate Realm

If your everyday job came with magic, strange creatures, or impossible rules, what would you actually be good at? Forget alarm clocks and normal ...
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Magical Ways to Start Again (That Don’t Involve a Glow-Up)

Somewhere along the way, we started thinking that “starting over” meant a dramatic transformation. New hair. New job. New fitness tracker. New version of ...
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How To Sprinkle A Little Weird Magic On Your New Year

Let’s get one thing out of the way: you don’t need a total life makeover just because a ball dropped in Times Square. You ...
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Small Joys, Secret Spells

Some people swear by meditation. Others have vision boards or five-year plans. Me? I have rituals. Little ones. Slightly odd, mostly joyful. I make ...
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How the Weeks Before the Holidays Hold Unexpected Joy

There’s a particular stretch of time every year that tends to slip past unnoticed. Not quite the holidays, not quite ordinary, it’s the stretch ...
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Grandma’s Enchanted Pie: A Whimsical Thanksgiving Story

Every Thanksgiving, the aroma of nutmeg, brown sugar, and something else entirely would fill Grandma Mae’s kitchen. It wasn’t just the turkey roasting or ...
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Magic is Courageous

Why Believing in Magic Isn’t Childish-It’s Courageous

Let’s start with a confession: I believe in magic. Not in the wand-waving, cauldron-bubbling, lightning-from-the-fingertips kind of way (although I’d be lying if I ...
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Top 5 Most Haunted Houses in the World

Top 5 Most Haunted Houses in the World and Why They Still Chill Us

There’s something universally thrilling about a good ghost story, especially when it’s rooted in a real place. The idea that a home, something so ...
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