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Valerie Fowler lives in Virginia Beach, Virginia, with her husband and three children. When she's not writing, she enjoys reading non-fiction, listening to podcasts, and taking too many pictures of her cat.

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Trying something new with my morning coffee. ☕️ Not quite sure what to make of it. 🧐
Decided to give this book another try. I remember Decided to give this book another try. I remember reading it for a college creative writing class years ago. 📚 

I started re-reading it a few months ago, but for some reason I just couldn’t get I into it. However, it was also around the same time I began to feel meh about my morning reading routine and switched over to audiobooks. Now I listen to my booklist instead, in the afternoon while walking around the backyard. 🎧

Lately I’ve been listening to mostly writing-related books. Some have been great, and I’ll likely be adding them to my writing bookshelf. 🥰

I gave up on one earlier today, though, after getting very close to the end, because the author started sarcastically bashing another writer and I was just full stop no. 🧐

Writer and reader friends, does something like this turn you off someone’s work as well? I mean, it’s fine not to enjoy another person’s creative work (everyone’s tastes are different) but never okay to tear someone down. And in a published book! All kinds of yikes. 😬

What are you reading this week? ❤️

#writersofinstagram #writingcommunity
I knew once we had the science ones we would event I knew once we had the science ones we would eventually own the math ones as well. 😀

Agent A will use these for the next school year. It will be a good review as he transitions into middle school. ❤️

Expect more book posts in the coming weeks. 📚

Buying and organizing everything for the next grades is always so much more exciting than wrapping up the current grades and taking boring standardized tests. 😆

#secularhomeschooling #homeschoolmath
Who’s a cute little stair obstacle? ❤️🐈 # Who’s a cute little stair obstacle? ❤️🐈 #oscardarwin #catsofinstagram #catsonstairs #catsintheway
How have I not owned wireless earbuds until now? 🧐
My plan was to do 100 days of @duolingoespanol and My plan was to do 100 days of @duolingoespanol and then take a brief break and go back to @coffeebreakspanish for a while. Then I got this cute guilt message from Duo and now I’m at 101. 😆💚 I guess I’ll do both. 🤷🏻‍♀️ @duolingo @coffeebreaklanguages #learningspanish #duolingo #coffeebreak #owlguilt
Y’all, I’ve gone decaf and lived to tell about Y’all, I’ve gone decaf and lived to tell about it. ☕️
This Oswald mug is one of my favorites. 🥰
And this giant tub of coffee from @costco is pretty darn good. 🧐
We love all things DK and these books are no excep We love all things DK and these books are no exception. ❤️

Agent J is completing the workbook as she prepares to wrap up middle school. {Um, how did that happen? 🧐}

There’s another workbook that’s more geared toward elementary school we’ll probably get for Agent A. 🙂

We will likely need the math book/workbook equivalents as well. 📚

#secularhomeschooling #welovebooks
@dkbooks @dkbooksus
Adding to our @hamiltonmusical pop collection. In Adding to our @hamiltonmusical pop collection. In theory it is part of Eva’s birthday present, but it’s really for me. 🤣 👑 #kinggeorge
Did I wrap my 16-year-old’s birthday present in Did I wrap my 16-year-old’s birthday present in Jake and the Neverland Pirates Christmas wrapping paper? Yes, yes I did.

Happy birthday, Agent E!

#maythebirthdaybewithyou
16 today 🤯 More recent photos to follow 😆 16 today 🤯

More recent photos to follow 😆

Cinnamon looked so much like Oscar 😀

The picture of me holding her is actually several hours after she was born, because I lost a lot of blood and the meds they gave me made me puke, good times. 🙃

The last picture of pregnant me was taken in our kitchen at about 2:00 a.m. 🙂
Anticipating working on some much longer research Anticipating working on some much longer research papers with Agent E for the next school year. I owned a copy of this years ago when I worked for a publishing company editing academic journals. This new addition is so pretty and organized so well. My writer brain is geeking out. 📚🥰
This drama llama is 12 this month. 12-ish. We thin This drama llama is 12 this month. 12-ish. We think. Maybe. ❤️ 🧐

He was brought into the shelter in May 2017 and listed as being seven. We didn’t meet him until late August, so yes, he spent a lot of time there. 😕🥲

Since we aren’t really sure when his birthday is, we celebrate in May. 🥳🎈

Happy birthday month, Oscar! 🥰🐱

#oscardarwin #catsofinstagram #birthdaycat
So far I only have my social media buttons and leg So far I only have my social media buttons and legal pages up, but I’m looking forward to actually posting something next week. 🥰

I wanted to try a different profile photo as well, but it seems I don’t actually have any good recent ones of just me {or me and the cat}. This one is from December 2019. I’m going to have to work on that. 🧐

Currently re-editing my first book {with a plan to re-release it next month} and let’s just say I learned a lot in the last year. 😬 The content will stay mostly the same, although I will be adding at least one complete new chapter and revising a couple others. 📚 The formatting, however, is a tragedy.🤣
Seriously; where did they come from? 🤣 Seriously; where did they come from? 🤣
We had company earlier and the cat wasn’t sure w We had company earlier and the cat wasn’t sure what to think about other humans in *his* house. #oscardarwin #catsofinstagram #caturday
I seem to have become an audiobook person? 🧐 🤷🏻‍♀️

This is my second time through this book. 📚 🎧

#selfpublishing #audiobooks #joannapenn #librarybooks
Friends, I am having the secular equivalent of a c Friends, I am having the secular equivalent of a come to Jesus moment with my writing. 

I am resetting my website and temporarily unpublishing my print and ebooks on Amazon. 

Going forward, I intend to relaunch Valerie Fowler Writes with an emphasis on writing, and republish all three books after thorough revisions. 

I know many of you found this page because of my posts about secular homeschooling and life after faith, and while I will still occasionally share photos/thoughts on those subjects on my social media, they will no longer be a focus on my website. 

Of course, cat photos will continue to make up 50% of my Instagram. Because fluff this beautiful must be shared. 

#oscardarwin #catsofinstagram #writing #writingcommunity #secularhomeschooling #lifeafterfaith
This might be my longest @duolingo streak ever. 🤣🦉💚 #learningspanish
I got this new bag to organize my purse and I can’t get over how adorable it is. 🥰🦩
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