Nine Cent Girl is 15!

Posted November 6, 2025

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This month marks year 15 for Nine Cent Girl. Nearly 700 posts being blasted out since my very first with many of you loyally reading along from the start. I am grateful to all who have reached out and let me know what my words mean to you. Writing is done in solitary fashion, with only one’s own thoughts and opinions and reactions and research to guide you. By hearing from friends and family, from other writers, and all the strangers who are now within my circle of correspondence, has made me so thankful for your messages. I remain buoyed by your support and am indebted by your continued readership. I did not enter this role knowing how wonderful it would be, but I am indeed beholden.

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Nine Cent Girl is 13!!!

Posted November 16, 2023

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Yes, 13! It’s official, Nine Cent Girl is a teenager, with all the audacity and dreaming that you’d want for your baby girl to envision for herself coming into the hard years. Not only is this baby girl, my little blog a teen, but this post passes over the 600 mark. It is with gratitude that I clear this monumental marker, realizing how many of you have been on this journey with me from the very start. Seriously, big thanks to all my readers. Your comments and nods have inspired me straight into this wondrous moment. Let’s share the cheer, for really, what is a writer without readers? So join with me, while I celebrate tonight, and please, please, enjoy this review of some of my favorite posts from 2023.

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Celebrations Abound

Posted November 10, 2022

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For so many reasons we are celebrating tonight. First due to the string of birthdays for daughter and niece, yet another Anniversary of this decade+ Nine Cent Girl blog, and wow, for the brilliant power of democracy in action. If you haven’t lifted your voice up in jubilant celebration, let this post encourage you with a wahoo for all the marvels of the week. In the spirit of positivity, I suggest that you roll out your yoga mat, hop on your bike, pour a glass or do whatever it is that you do to chant yourself into bliss for all the goodness that came your way this week. Let’s sparkle for all these triumphs!