This post is my participation in the ‘Writing Contest: You Are A Writer’ held by Positive Writer. Visit the website for many inspiring stories of how other writers found their calling! Even though as a child I was a voracious reader and often wrote stories about my Cabbage Patch Kid dolls, when it came time for me […]
Why Waiting is Worthwhile
This post is part of a blog linkup I am participating in to celebrate the launching of Jeff Goins’ new book, The In-Between. I just downloaded it on my kindle and haven’t read it yet, but I have read several excerpts from it and I think it’s going to be great! If you want to […]
Captured
In the interest of my mental health, I’m throwing caution to the wind and playing the piano instead of writing tonight. After all, one can only stay away from the piano so long before one goes stark raving mad (although I wonder why so many of those classical composers went nuts then?). Anyhow, I decided […]
The Kind of Writer I Want to Be
Words are powerful I can’t begin to imagine how the hundreds of books I have read in my life have shaped me and the way I think. That’s why I’m excited and terrified at the same time that I get to be a writer. It’s an awesome responsibility. Writers are teachers, of sorts, and the […]
What Made America Great
We Americans are proud of our country, and of the way we grew to be one of the greatest nations in the world. We fought hard and won our independence and then fought other wars to defend our land, keep the union together, and to preserve freedom for other nations. But how did we succeed […]
How to Sing When You’d Rather Scream
Last week I fought the grumpies for a couple of days. As I was in the midst of this battle one morning, the lower dishwasher rack came partially off the tracks on the door. It has the tendency to do this occasionally, and I have the tendency to be royally irked by it. Feeling my […]