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LivelyByHoney | Blog by Honey MaryNell Goolsby


Finding the One Who Feels Like Home
I was scrolling through social media when I came across a Mel Robbins video that stopped me in my tracks. She was talking about love —...
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From Monster to Magic: Swapping Chills for Good Vibes
Sometimes you just need a shift —from true-crime chills to golden-hour feels. A reminder that joy, like good music, never goes out of...
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The Art of Honest Storytelling (Honey’s Way)
When the credits rolled and Augusta looked at her son and said, “Only a mother could love you,” I sat there quietly, letting the words...
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When the Monster Becomes the Performance
I’ve watched enough of this Monster series now to realize something deeply unsettling — not about Ed Gein or Richard Speck, but about us....
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With Grace for Who I Was and Love for Who I’ve Become
Learning to honor the woman I once was while celebrating the one I’ve become. Sobriety, strength, and grace led me home to myself.
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The Danger of Distorted Truth
Truth is fragile. It bends easily under the weight of ego, fear, and misunderstanding. Sometimes, it breaks altogether — and what...
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Say Her Name: Bernice Worden Deserved Better
Not every story needs embellishment. Some are powerful enough in their truth. The story of Bernice Worden is one of them. She was a...
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The Girl Who Never Came Home: Remembering Evelyn Hartley
There are stories that shouldn’t have to be retold — stories that never belonged to headlines or horror shows in the first place. Evelyn...
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Rewriting Memory: How We Change Our Own Stories
The mind is a masterful storyteller. It edits, omits, and rearranges until life feels more bearable, or at least more coherent. Sometimes...
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Intelligence Without Credentials: What Alexa Taught Me About Boundaries and Self-Worth
(by Honey | Lively by Honey) There’s a simple truth I rarely share out loud: I know I’m intelligent. Not just in the “I can solve...
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The Monster and the Mirror: When Cinema Becomes Reality
There’s a strange intimacy in watching something horrifying that’s “based on a true story.” We lean in closer, pulse quickening, because...
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The Quiet Horror of Enmeshment: Lessons from Ed Gein and the Prison of Unlived Lives
Sometimes horror isn’t found in the dark corners of the world, but in the quiet corners of a family — where love becomes control and...
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✨The Power of 11: A Love Written in Numbers
Some numbers count the days and mark the years. Others whisper. They show up quietly — on clocks, receipts, license plates — like the...
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🌦️ When It Rains, They Listen Too
By Honey (aka—MaryNell) This morning, as rain brushed softly against my window, I found myself wondering — what do the animals do on...
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💫 Forever, in Theory and in Love
(by Honey / Lively by Honey) Scientists call them time crystals — strange new states of matter that repeat themselves endlessly in time,...
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🌙 The Rhythm of Generations
(by Honey / Lively by Honey) Lately I’ve been thinking about how, in families, cousins often seem to have babies around the same time —...
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When the Diagnosis Never Came: Understanding Adults Who May Be on the Spectrum Without Knowing It
Have you ever met someone who seemed to live by their own rhythm — smart, funny, even charming in moments — yet somehow disconnected when...
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When They Still Try to Poke You
It’s funny when you couldn’t care less where someone moved—because really, all that matters is they moved away from you. It’s funnier...
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Echoes of Choice
There was a time when he had all of me. I loved him entirely. I was his to lose—and he did. Whether it was because he didn’t love me,...
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🌟When Numbers Whisper Back
Ever since I can remember, numbers have spoken to me. They’re how I remember things, how I mark moments, and how I make sense of the...
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