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I’ve sat here for quite a little while trying to figure out how to begin this post. All I have to do is share about being surprised by the unexpected in my life. Yeah. Let me narrow that down to one thing for you. Um. not going to happen. Every time I thought I knew where my life was going, …
There was a time in my life when I would handle problems this way: I’d lay awake at night and think . . . and think . . . and think . . . I just knew that if I thought long enough, hard enough — maybe prayed a bit about the situation — I would figure a way out …
I like John Wayne. To be more specific, I like his movies. Some of my favorites are Hatari, Hellfighters, The Quite Man, Rio Bravo, The Searchers … okay, I’ll stop there. I had fun weaving my love of John Wayne movies into to my newest novel, Somebody Like You. My heroine, Haley, likes John Wayne movies too. I have a …
How many yesterdays are you dragging around with you? Such weighty invisibles … slowing us down, holding us back. If I’m looking in the rear view mirror, how can I be aware of what’s happening up ahead? How can I be prepared for the future if I’m mired in the past? The question that has lingered with me all weekend …
I knew what today’s post was going to be about last Friday. I thought about the whole “glass half full” versus “glass half empty” mindset all weekend long. Me? I used to be a “glass half empty” gal. Somedays I wasn’t even sure there was even more than a drop of water in the glass. Two things changed my perspective: …
Oh, the days I’ve wished away. If I had the chance to count up all the hours … the minutes … the seconds … they’d probably spill over the edges of my cupped hands like the sands inside an hourglass. Gone. But I’ve enjoyed my days too. Savored the sweetness of times woven through with laughter and yes, even tears …
“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” ~John Lennon (1940-1980), English musician, singer & songwriter If I told you what kind of life I’d planned for myself versus the life I’m living now … Wait. Let me do just that. Life I’d planned for myself: Single woman. Hotshot reporter for the Washington Post. Living in …
