Perpetual Exhaustion
How hard is it to trademark a phrase? These days, I feel like I may as well start making some merch for my new brand name, Perpetual Exhaustion. (I’m starting to think this may be a really good idea. Please don’t steal it from me. I kind of want a t-shirt now.) I feel like…
My Own Employee
For over a decade, I have made a living as a teacher. I teach middle and high school English and Spanish classes, and I teach online college classes as well. Although there are definitely challenges (especially the last few months of the most recent school year), I love it (almost all the time). I have…
Review: Reforming Lord Neil
I love when I read a book in which the characters, both good and bad, get what’s coming to them. Reforming Lord Neil by Sally Britton is a heart-warming regency novel, which left me feeling comfortably sated in my desire for a happy ending. Not only did the novel tie up each of its strings…
“We are all fools in love”
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
Mini Bio
Dawn Ludlow lives and writes in Montana. She is a teacher by day, a writer by night, a wife, and a mom of three always.



