What’s New With Me & Recommendations For You! June 2025
Updates & Recommendations for June 2025
Hello beautiful souls!!
May was another month of swinging between creation and exhaustion for me! I’m still keeping my writing to the basics right now, but I look forward to getting my Strange Nature series back up and running again! I will probably start with just one a month while so much is in flux for me, but I will increase the frequency as I am able.
My son’s MMA fight fell through last minute, so I didn’t get to go to Florida last month. I was a little disappointed, but only a little. I’ll get back there soon enough, and I was able to do some purging and refreshing of my physical space, which was desperately needed!
Table of Contents
What I’ve written this past month
What I’m creating
What I’m watching
What I’m reading
What I’m listening to
What I’ve written this past month
Gluten-Free Made Easy: 20 Tips & Tricks for a Gluten-Free Diet
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What I’m creating
If you caught my updates last month, you’ll know that I’ve been making jewelry. I’ve learned a lot about wire wrapping and have been making my own chain links for earrings over the past year-ish. I am finally feeling confident enough in my abilities to start doing a little more.
Last week, I dismantled my favorite pendant and am currently trying to create the perfect wrap for it. I’ve been wearing that pendant for about 30 years and rarely take it off! It has had a ton of incarnations already since I dismantled it, and will probably have quite a few more. Here are a few pics of my journey so far:
Here’s what it looked like before I took it apart:
What I’m reading
A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire, by George R.R. Martin
The HBO series is one of my all-time favorites, but I had a hard time reading the books with my eyes, so I gave up. I finally have the audiobooks and am listening to them now! In case you aren’t familiar:
“In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the North of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are massing beyond the kingdom’s protective Wall. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the land they were born to. Sweeping from a land of brutal cold to a distant summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, here is a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim omens. Amid plots and counterplots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, the fate of the Starks, their allies, and their enemies hangs perilously in the balance, as each endeavors to win that deadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones.”
Here’s the Amazon link (not a paid link)
What I’m watching
Links and synopsis from IMBD
The Handmaid’s Tale series on Hulu (New season!!)
I was so surprised to see a new season this year since there haven’t been any new episodes for a few years! The last episode aired last week, and it looks like there will be a spin-off coming soon 🙂
“Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship.”
The Wheel of Time series on Prime
I’ve never read the books, but they’re on my list now! The 3rd season of this series just wrapped, and I’m heartbroken to have heard they will not be renewing another season. It’s still an amazing show and worth watching – I love their magic system!
“The lives of five young villagers change forever when a strange and powerful woman arrives, claiming one of them is the child of an ancient prophecy with the power to tip the balance between Light and Dark forever.”
The Last of Us series on HBO/MAX
I know, I’m always late to the party! I love Pedro Pascal & Bella Ramsey from Game of Thrones, and they have confirmed that a 3rd season is in the works! This has a Walking Dead feel to it, but the zombies are definitely much scarier, and it pulls on the heartstrings a little more as well.
“After a global pandemic destroys civilization, a hardened survivor takes charge of a 14-year-old girl who may be humanity’s last hope.”
What I’m listening to
Links will bring you to YouTube 🙂
I hadn’t heard any of these in such a long time, and love that YouTube remembers everything I’ve ever liked 🤣🤣🤣
Florence + The Machine, Girl With One Eye
The Violent Femmes, Kiss Off
Suicidal Tendencies, Breakdown
(YouTube has a lovely message to reach out whenever I search this band)
Wrapping Up
Well, that's about it for me! How was your May? What did you think of my recommendations? What are you creating, reading, watching, and listening to?
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Originally published on halfcrackedguru.com on 6/4/25
Definitely put G.R.R. Martin on the map. Haha.
I'm afraid Bella will forever be that lil badass of Bear Island in my mind. They really gave her a fitting end in thrones! Haha. Hope you're keeping well, Trish. Say hi and sorry to Liberty for not knowing the new time for her show....i've not been getting the notifications that i used to.