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Phoenix Rising
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Phoenix Rising combines a love for literature and writing with a love for fashion. Right now, Phoenix Rising is working to discover personal style.
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We've Moved

Officially moved the blog and all my internet bulk to a new (more simplified) domain! Please follow me, I know changing bookmark and subscription information can be annoying. http://ashleylorelle.com

11 feb 10 1 person likes this

Phoenix is Sleepy

I just wanted to apologize for this blog being rather quiet this week. Despite feeling completely exhausted and uninspired the past few days, I am currently working on transferring the blog to my own...

09 feb 10

Babelogue

This may not follow the same kind of "Theme" this blog has been venturing into this week, but I just adore Patti Smith--and her Babelogue is awesome. It's inspiring, and its good to listen to when I'...

05 feb 10

Why I Want to Be a Writer

I can't believe I never thought to write about this before. It should be required before anyone enters into a profession for them to state the reasons why they want to do that thing in the first plac...

04 feb 10

Nutella Croissant

You cannot have a Nutella Day without the goodness of a light and buttery, sweet and nutty Nutella Croissant:  

04 feb 10

Nutella Day

You know Nutella has transcended the genre of normal condiments when five pages of pictures are devoted to it on Weheartit.com I am happy today. There isn't any particular reason for this happiness, ...

03 feb 10

I'm So In Love (With Myself)

As I have traveled further into the world of blogging, I have really striven to break away from my blogging hero (Gala Darling) in order to create my own unique content. That is why you won't see me ...

01 feb 10

Imbolc

Last night and today marks the pagan festival  of Imbolc (Or Candlemas).  This is a festival that celebrates the Celtic goddess Brigid: who is a fire and fertility goddess that rules the hearth and p...

01 feb 10

Sunday Serenity

It is hard to feel serene this Sunday knowing that I have to go work an eight hour shift. However, I gain comfort from knowing that this is the last Sunday until May that I will have to work. Today i...

31 jan 10

A Spring of Useless Questions

This is one of the most egotistical things one could create online, so naturally I just had to create one.     http://www.formspring.me/alore lle22

29 jan 10

Give Me Paper or Give Me Madness

I'm beginning to wonder how it may ever be possible to update this blog as often as I want. As it stands I already spend too much of my time sitting at a computer and writing. This kind of structure ...

27 jan 10

Things I'd Do If I Didn't Need A Job

  I've been working on manifesting my own reality. This includes making lists and lists of things. What is my perfect day? What kind of toppings go best on a sundae? What would my diet look like if i...

25 jan 10

Sunday Serenity--The Spine Song

and you're downfor the countyou are dancing with mengoing around and aroundand you're scaredand you're surethat your spine will dissolveyou will fall to the flooryou will takewhat you needand the hea...

24 jan 10

Nature Girl

Recently, this large part of me has been wanting to jump into a time machine and travel back to the late sixties/early seventies. I have been lurking through record shops and laying face down on my l...

20 jan 10

Imaginarium

Last night we saw The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus and afterwards I could not speak. When we got to the parking lot the snow was falling.  The flakes were thick, heavy, and stuck to everything. Dr...

18 jan 10

Sunday Serenity

You may be wondering why I am posting Sunday Serenity late on a Saturday night. It is because I have decided that Sundays will be my "No computer days". I am completely cutting myself off from my wel...

17 jan 10

5 Fashion Trends I Cannot Wait For to End

  Remember guys, these are just my personal opinions. You may not agree with me, but I am just not a fan of the following trends.  If you do have some healthy arguments against my choices, then pleas...

11 jan 10

Sunday Serenity

I would like you to share an affirmation with me. Think it, say it, with firm belief, knowing that we are all one. In the name of truth, peace and love:Thank you, thank you, thank you. Our planet is ...

10 jan 10

500 Word a Day Challenge

  Today I am embarking on Inky Girl's "500 Word a Day Challenge". I originally intended to start the challenge the first of January, but I was constantly distracted. So instead of just impulsively go...

08 jan 10

Crazy Hats

This weekend I traveled to Saratoga Springs with some friends of mine.  One of my favorite moments of the trip was taking advantage of the beautiful and goofy headdresses for sale at the "Saratoga Sh...

05 jan 10

Lament to Inspire

  This cramp in my stomach is a local disease that will not release me so that I may find the cure to bring the tree of life back to life. Yes the tree of life needs to reawaken back to life. Only if...

04 jan 10

Sunday Serenity

Sundays are for journaling, for writing, and for making beauty.    

04 jan 10

New Year Wishes From Neil Gaiman

  Neil Gaiman is the master of magical writing, and one of my heroes. So it only makes sense that in the past he has written some beautiful New Years wishes. May your coming year be filled with magic...

01 jan 10

Goodbye Formative Years

Today is the last day of 2009, and the last day of the decade that shaped my life and shaped me into who I am today. I turned twelve in 2000 and ended the decade at twenty-one, so as you can imagine ...

31 dec 09

Bird in a Cage

  Today another starlet died A light faded And I became wrapped up in love. The only answer… On an answering machine Is the whispered silence of a “Please,” He said. “I don’t want to go another momen...

28 dec 09

Everyone Else is Saying Goodbye to 2009, Why Can't I?

  I haven't put much thought into new year resolutions today. I found a file on my laptop that had all the new year resolutions I made a year ago and I realize that I accomplished none of them. Most ...

27 dec 09

The Happiest of Holidays

  I want to take the time to wish everyone a very happy holiday!  I want to thank all my readers for being patient with me this year as I worked out all the kinks in order to find exactly what I want...

25 dec 09

Reviving Fiction

Fellow writers: Do you ever go browsing through your "Documents" folder and find endless files full of story beginnings that you had forgotten you had written and more frustrating, forgot what you ha...

22 dec 09

Christmas Spirit

I've been having a hard time getting into the Christmas spirit this year. I think a lot of this has to do with not having enough money to buy gifts or decorations, and I haven't felt at all inspired ...

19 dec 09

Where Words Come From

  I showed my mother a poem I thought up, it went something like this: This girl standing before you crying blood from her eyes... She had to write an entire world to make the autumn come alive. Ther...

18 dec 09

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