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The Art of Reclaiming Your Lost Soul
🧡 Legend Making

The Art of Reclaiming Your Lost Soul

May 16, 2021December 9, 2025 Stephanie Ortiz2 Comments

I have a hunch that these days we’re all lost boys to some extent or another. We’ve long since fallen out of sync with the pre-pandemic rat race, but without Peter Pan to lead us out of this, how are we supposed to do IRL (in real life)? I’m the last to know the trendy… Continue reading The Art of Reclaiming Your Lost Soul

United Forever
🩵 Finding Extraordinary

United Forever

May 9, 2021April 12, 2025 Stephanie Ortiz5 Comments

Mom always loved the rain. As a kid, her Dad would open the garage, and the two of them would sit and watch it rain. She did the same thing as an adult (well, not in the garage). Sometimes she’d even go outside and walk around the driveway and pick weeds. So she had a… Continue reading United Forever

Zoom Into Your Room: Public vs. Private
🩵 Finding Extraordinary

Zoom Into Your Room: Public vs. Private

May 3, 2021April 12, 2025 Stephanie Ortiz2 Comments

Zoom played a number on us because it opened up our private lives and made them public, and now we don’t know what hit us. It wasn’t too long ago when we didn’t want anyone to see us on a camera, let alone in our homes, unless we spent a lot of time primping and… Continue reading Zoom Into Your Room: Public vs. Private

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I’m Stephanie Ortiz, a storyteller–like a professional organizer; only I use words instead of boxes. I’ve written fiction and nonfiction since being a journalism major at UNC-Chapel Hill–before there were iPhones, to know a story when it hits me. And whenever I need a muse, there’s always real life to draw from.

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