The Writer As Editor

Last night in my blog group meeting we were having quite the discussion about editing. Some of us find editing easy. Some of us find it hard. Some of us take longer to edit than it did to write the post. Then we examined certain sentences in our “About Me” sections. We talked about the . . . → Read More: The Writer As Editor

TullyandKate

TullyandKate. All Kristin Hannah fans know TullyandKate. Kristin Hannah’s Firefly Lane is the best friendship story ever told. I remember reading in 2009 and just crying and sobbing after I turned the last page. Making the reader care and invest in the characters is the mark of a best selling author. Nobody does it like . . . → Read More: TullyandKate

Forget Your Age; Live Your Life

Recently I had my hair spritzed with red again, so when I entered the the Koko Fit Club this morning fit coach Amanda commented on how cute it was and wasn’t it purple last month? Near me was an elderly woman with gorgeous short, white-silver hair. She commented she liked my hair then said, “Imagine . . . → Read More: Forget Your Age; Live Your Life

Exactly This Day

One of the fun parts of writing a daily blog is you know that for ever how many years you wrote it, you can go back and see what you wrote about on exactly this day, however many years ago you choose. One might ask what would be the purpose of doing that?

The biggest . . . → Read More: Exactly This Day

Green Dots

A few weeks ago a friend introduced a new SEO widget for blogging involving green dots at our blog group meeting. (SEO stands for search engine optimization which is just a fancy name for ways to get the search engines, like Google, to pick up your blog easier.)

I’ve never been one to be particularly . . . → Read More: Green Dots

Solitary Confinement

My solitary confinement began six days ago with the onset of a bad cold. (My husband brought it from NY). I haven’t been sick in years and forgot what it was like. I almost didn’t even remember my old cold remedies that used to work to shorten the life of such a cold. Besides the . . . → Read More: Solitary Confinement

Staring At The TV

Sitting in my chair Watching the news Staring at the TV

Drinking hot tea Blowing my nose Staring at the TV

Chomping on Halls Taking pills Staring at the TV

Reading books Words with friends (Play with me!) Staring at the TV

After three days Now it seems That my TV

Is staring back at . . . → Read More: Staring At The TV

Finished “The Timekeeper”

I finished the last bit of Mitch Albom’s The Timekeeper as soon as I got up this morning. I read it until 1 am, tried to sleep, read more at 3 am, slept for a bit, and had to finish it at 6 am. It was that good. In fact, in the in-between times while . . . → Read More: Finished “The Timekeeper”

It’s All In The Eyes

“And that is why, when it’s time to make a change in my life, I just BEGIN.

Even if I’m starting in the wrong place. On the wrong project.

I simply BEGIN.

ACTION is magical. Somehow, action leads to clarity. Begin somewhere and just pay attention to the results you get. Then, . . . → Read More: It’s All In The Eyes

Hangin’ Out On The Twitter

Did you ever spend time hangin’ out on the Twitter feed, fall into a post and feel like someone spent time in your home and just wrote out your whole life?

That doesn’t often happen to me, so yesterday, when it did, it was a big enough deal to share. Big enough because the . . . → Read More: Hangin’ Out On The Twitter