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Jessica Marie Baumgartner

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Born

in Saint Louis , The United States

August 04, 1983

Website

http://jessicamariebaumgartner.com/

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Philosophy, Spirituality, Nonfiction

Influences

Joy Adamson, Sybil Leek, Roald Dahl

Member Since

December 2012

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Jessica’s motto is: Adventure first, then write! When not running around exploring life, she chases multiple versions of herself (5 Kids) and feeds animal babies. She is also the author of "Reclaiming Femininity," "The Magic of Trees," "Homeschooling on a Budget," "The Magic of Nature," "Walk Your Path," "The Golden Rule," and more . Despite being a walking oxymoron factory: dyslexic-writer, maternal-tomboy, conservative-Pagan, she loves everyone and works for the Right Side Broadcasting Network, Mid Rivers Newsmagazine, and Witch Way Magazine. She is an America First Free-Speech advocate and current member of the Missouri Writers’ Guild and Saturday Writers groups.

Her writing has won:

2024 2nd Place Saturday Writers July/August Poetry Award ...more

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Average rating: 4.14 · 503 ratings · 119 reviews · 26 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Golden Rule 4.60 avg rating — 30 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	By the Stars (Embracing Entropy #1) 4.25 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	My Family Is Different by Jessica Marie Baumgartner (Goodreads Author), Laura Winship-Fanaei (Illustrator) 4.62 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Siren's Snare 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Magic of Trees 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Homeschooling on a Budget 4.13 avg rating — 8 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wish for Survival (Embracing Entropy #2) 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Tale of Two Bookends 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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It's been very exciting discussing home education with so many different people. I hope everyone catches my interview on Deb Fillman's The Reason We Learn Podcast, because that really laid it all out (and is available on YouTube now). But if not, I'm going to be on Steve Hilton's show and doing a interview with Moms for America soon.

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“When you’re outnumbered by trees your perspective shifts.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, Walk Your Path: A Magical Awakening

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“To quench the thirst for deeper love and stronger bonds, one must remember to laugh and love like a child.”
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“She longed to hide beneath every drop of water in the sea.”
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“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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“Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.”
― Charles Addams

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“All these bad experiences that we go through, they don't just disappear. We carry them our whole life trying to forget, escaping in habits, addictions, hate, toxic relationships. But what we don't know is that by doing so we let them stay alive. We water them like withered flowers and we hang onto them to justify our mistakes and failures.”
― Asper Blurry, Train to the Edge of the Moon

tags: experience, fighting-spirit, hope, life, strength

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“Illusion"

A man wants to be free
flying in the emptiness of the universe
He thinks he means something
in the endlessness of nature
A man wakes up
being only a dust”
― Asper Blurry, Train to the Edge of the Moon

tags: hope, life-lessons, life-quotes, lost-souls, misfit, saddness

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“Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them. ”
― Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

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