Hickeys Everywhere

16/10/2022

slay-venia 🇸🇮

11/09/2022

If you read my book the foreword is about my genuine fear to publish a book.

I needed my reader to know we were going on a scary-next-chapter-journey together but “we can’t care” 😉

Well its been 6 months and nothing bad has happened to me! No one tripped me in the street, no one called the book crap on my Amazon reviews, and I received zero hate emails. In fact, just the opposite…I’ve met new friends, rekindled old relationships and learned dozens of new skills.

Now it’s your turn to tell your story, write your song, pick up your paints, try out, apply, audition, post the video, start the business, or whatever slightly scares you. Linked below is an article I wrote on top tips for first time self publishers. Practical and tactical.

Go get your life. I promise the critics live only in your head.

https://hickeyseverywhere.com/tips-for-writing-your-first-book-self-publishing/

13/08/2022

Lil tongue action

03/06/2022

I know you want all the things done and the answers now and all the goals accomplished but slow down. You’re doing fine. :: Talking to myself ::

30/04/2022

All of these adventures and learning and all of this beauty but tbh I just wish I could spend Mother’s Day with my mom. It’s not all magic genie lamps and and tea in the Sahara desert…it’s fighting with my brothers over the corner cinnamon roll and watching my nephews first steps. Here’s a happy picture and a sad caption…because that’s what this really is.

26/04/2022

Being here during Ramadan has been so interesting. Some people say don’t travel during this time but I disagree. It was not too hot and the sunset was even more beautiful as we watched people come together to break their fasts.

26/04/2022

Fes to Merzouga to Marrakech

23/03/2022

First face to face in almost 2 years. L’Oréal team was great and the pixie food was gorgeous but we later required Korean BBQ. Le boss Symbia Partners: le 🐐 comme d’habitude.

23/03/2022

First face to face in almost a year. L’Oréal team was great and the pixie food was gorgeous but we later required Korean BBQ. Le boss is the 🐐 comme d’habitude.

15/03/2022

Fallas!!!! It’s been two years since a “proper” Fallas and all of the streets in Valencia are again filled with art, churros, fireworks, music and traditional dresses. Schools out…let’s goooo! 

16/02/2022

How will you spend your leftover jellybeans?

https://youtu.be/BOksW_NabEk

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30/01/2022

Today I am an Amazon #1 bestselling author in 3 categories!!! 🥇 I don’t have a Ph.D., or a publisher, or an editor, and I’m not an expert (whatever that even means). I had a Google doc. YOU CAN DO ANYTHING 📕

A Google doc - do you hear me? I’m overwhelmed with gratitude. You really can do anything. This is proof.

https://amzn.to/3g6VZqV

28/01/2022

Have Fun. Be Safe. I Love You.
Now Available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3g6VZqV

22/01/2022

BOOK LAUNCH DAY is Friday 1.28.22 📕

These students (and hundreds more) were my inspiration for writing this book. As a teacher for 10 years, I wished I could spend a semester abandoning curriculum to talk about what really matters: relationships, forging your own path, ditching people that drain you, mental health, and authenticity. I would have called that class "Your Grades Don't Matter" and it would have been fire and I would have been fired, ha.

This book is that class. It's a guide for high school upperclassmen (and a great reminder for all ages really) on being fearless, understanding your negativity bias, leaving your dorm room door open, befriending your advisor, and taking care of your thoughts. It's a real-talk reminder that none of us know what we're doing and you don't have to have it all figured out.

I interviewed some of my former students and included their names and quotes in the book. When I was tired or discouraged in writing, I would picture them seeing their name in print and it would light a fire for me.

After years of buying sh*t Target graduation cards, this book is what I wished I could have given these students. It's years late but it's for you.

The book is titled :: Have Fun, Be Safe, I Love You :: because everything else will work out juussst fine.

Con amor...Señora Hickey

🚀 1.28.22 🚀
Amazon and Barnes & Noble

15/01/2022

I'm getting SO excited to launch my book!!! Only weeks away - date announced soon. Here are a few book covers I loved and sent to a designer for inspiration. As I prepare to launch what do you want to know about the writing process, the book, the inspiration, publishing - ASK ME below. I want to share what's interesting to you...

07/01/2022

“Mama, in my class everyone says they are café con leche. But I’m just leche.”
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Café con leche is a popular Spanish coffee order that is half hot milk and half coffee - combining to create a light brown color. Sam is “just milk” aka “white”. Blue eyes. American. English speaking. Other.
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Moving here has taught us what being “other” feels like.
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“Other” feels lonely. “Other” makes you seek out your fellow “others” to feel seen. “Other” is a struggle with language, rules, culture, and fitting in. It’s feeling lost when people talk too fast and inferior for not knowing. “Other” is constant and hard.
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BUT being on the outside builds empathy. Being an “other” means you have a superpower to see those standing outside the circle and a deep desire to invite them in. It means you wait in the “foreigners” line to file paperwork and hold “others” babies while they dig out their copious amounts of paperwork - without judgement. “Other” has strengthened our connections with others and within our selves.
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We might be “just leche” but we’re definitely whole. 😉 Living as “other” is a gift but I also recognize that it’s something that we can easily change by moving back. Not everyone has this “other shape-shifting” power.
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So cheers to the café con leches, the soy milks, boba teas, chai lattes, and espressos. And cheers to struggles!! It’s where the real magic and growth happens.

21/12/2021

Last-minute gift ideas: EXPERIENCES! Check it out...
https://hickeyseverywhere.com/gifts-that-arent-stuff-a-gift-list-of-experiences-for-2021/

13/12/2021

Try to travel, otherwise
you may become racist,
and you may end up believing
that your skin is the only one
to be right,
that your language
is the most romantic
and that you were the first
to be the first.
Travel,
because if you don't travel then
your thoughts won’t be strengthened,
won’t get filled with ideas.
Your dreams will be born with fragile legs and then you end up believing in tv-shows, and in those who invent enemies
that fit perfectly with your nightmares
to make you live in terror.
Travel,
because travel teaches
to say good morning to everyone
regardless of which sun we come from.
Travel,
because travel teaches
to say goodnight to everyone
regardless of the darkness
that we carry inside
Travel,
because traveling teaches to resist,
not to depend,
to accept others, not just for who they are
but also for what they can never be.
To know what we are capable of,
to feel part of a family
beyond borders,
beyond traditions and culture.
Traveling teaches us to be beyond.
Travel,
otherwise you end up believing
that you are made only for a panorama
and instead inside you
there are wonderful landscapes
still to visit.
- Gio Evan, poet and songwriter.
Translated from Italian.

10/12/2021

Iche liebe dich

28/11/2021

Last November I Googled “how to write a book”. Today I clicked submit. You can learn how to do anything I swear.

23/11/2021

People always ask “What do you miss most?” ⬇️

12/11/2021

I will endure cold weather for this!! We're headed to the Christmas markets in Cologne and Frankfurt next month. Where are you going for the holidays?

pc: The Portable Wife - loving her Germany guide, check it out 🎄

29/10/2021

It’s her for me. Happy Birthday. 🤍

19/09/2021

I heard on NPR years ago a study of happy people. What the majority of them had in common was they all had something they were looking forward to.
Think about what gets you through the week? It’s the excitement for the next thing: Friday happy hour, a concert, a wedding, or a trip.
The pandemic took away my ability to look forward to things and it really put into perspective how much of my happiness revolves around a countdown. The dreaming, anticipating, research, and planning is half the fun.

I hope you’ve got something good in the hopper😉

14/09/2021

12 years old. He’s hilarious, adventurous, so loving and smart. No more kids meals bruv. You’re big time now…

12/09/2021

Little fishing town of Burano - a 30 min boat ride from Venice. The colored houses help the fishermen to find the village through the fog when they were out at sea.🌈

05/09/2021

My family calls me Indiana Jones in this hat 😆 I don’t want to post pics while I’m traveling anymore, I don’t get to be in the moment, so I’ll slow drip these as I’m feelin it. Hope you’re enjoying your Sunday!

01/04/2021

Itching to escape the summer heat? Iceland is allowing all vaccinated travelers (including Americans) to travel without testing or quarantining.