#FreeForAll – Jan Sikes

May 19, 2023

Friday Free-For-All – Are readers burnt out? #freebies

Hello, wonderful blog subscribers! Happy Friday! What's on my mind today is based on two recent book marketing experiences that raise big questions. So, I look forward to your input. If you read these posts, you know I recently took my books to an International Guitar Festival in Dallas. It is huge. There were tons …

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May 12, 2023

Friday Free-For-All

Happy Friday, y'all! I started out writing today's post about the mass shooting at the Allen, Texas, outlet mall last weekend, only to delete what I'd written. The mall is literally 5 miles down the road from where I live. What a horrific event. So many innocent lives were lost, and for what? I don't …

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March 24, 2023

Friday Free-For-All! #Music #Self-Care

Happy Friday. Is it me, or has this been a long week? Even though this was the first week of spring, the temperatures here were cold, and it didn't feel much like spring. However, today is warm, so maybe we're done with the cold weather. My mom always used to say there would be an …

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February 24, 2023

Friday Free-For-All! #Disney #Alkalinewater

Happy Friday! I don't know about you, but this has seemed like a long week. I am still super far behind on everything I missed from being away, but dealing with the fact that I won't catch up, so just moving forward. Thought I'd share a few photos from our Disney adventure to start this …

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January 27, 2023

Friday Free-For-All! #ProteinBalls #Ladybug #Querying

I say this on Mondays and then again on Fridays. Time sure does fly by! Happy Friday and the start of another weekend. I began a weight loss adventure around the first of October and used a plan called Optavia. I wasn't extremely overweight but needed to lose those stubborn ten pounds I gained when …

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December 9, 2022

Friday Free For All!

Happy Friday, y'all!! this will most likely be my last Friday post for a while. The grandkids get out of school next Thursday, and my days will be filled with taking care of them. I saw this on Facebook and thought it was worth sharing. I don't know about you, but I am pretty fed …

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November 18, 2022

Friday Free For All! #Dreams

Happy Friday! We've made another week. Today is the last stop on the Saddled Hearts blog tour, so I hope you will visit me at Erika Kind's place. Yesterday, myself and a couple of my Story Empire colleagues were talking about sleep patterns, then we got sidetracked talking about dreams. What are dreams? Dr. Derup, …

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November 4, 2022

Friday Free-For-All! #Mushrooms #Memory

Happy Friday! It's been a crazy busy week, and the Saddled Hearts tour is still going on. I am overwhelmed and happy with the reviews that are rolling in for this new book. In fact, as a good friend likes to say, "I'm dancing on sunshine!" (Parris, if you see this, you know I'm talking …

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October 14, 2022

Friday Free-For-All! Music Festival and Keyboard

I have to start this Friday's post off with a short recap of the amazing music festival I attended last weekend. With over 36 hours and 112 bands and solo acts, not counting the nightly campfires, it was a lot! There wasn't much sleeping involved. And, I even got to dance. 🙂 https://videopress.com/v/VTfRWeOm?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true I took …

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September 23, 2022

Friday Free-For-All – Clutter/DeClutter

Welcome to another Friday post! I walked into my office the other day and stopped dead in my tracks. It was a MESS!!! Photos by Jan Sikes That's ridiculous! It was time to do something about it. I stay so busy and go in such a fast run all the time, cleaning and organizing get …

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