Have you ever listened to your inner voice when faced with a difficult or seemingly impossible task? What we tell ourselves about the impossible task is more than likely what will transpire. Do you hear, “I can do this!”? Or do you hear, “Um, this is too great a task for me, I don’t think […]
This is the time of year where we are all running around like crazy people. Is it possible to make the Christmas season about what is most important to us? I think it is. However, there was a time I didn’t think it was possible. I dreaded Christmas because it seemed to be the highest […]
The day before my daughter’s wedding I told her to expect things to go wrong on her special day: “As long as you focus on what’s most important, it will not matter one bit. Enjoy your day and roll with the problems, but expect them because there will be unexpected challenges.” As the day began, […]
By the time you read this, Christmas will be a memory and the New Year will be creeping in. But as I write this, Christmas is four days away and I find myself sitting in a Starbucks located in a Target, drinking coffee and reading a book. Glad I wasn’t here on Black Friday! Many […]
Christmas is a wonderful time of year full of joy, laughing, and singing. Singing? Sometimes all those Christmas Carols can drive you batty! Yes, for some Christmas is lovely, but for others it can be the worst time of the year. For many years I longed to make the holiday season a joyous occasion but […]
My daughter needed to sell her car. Months earlier someone had left a note on it, “If you ever want to sell your car call me,” and they left their number. Monica called the number and set up an appointment for them to see the car. The lady on the phone told her that her […]
Writers tread where most dare not go. Not that we are not afraid to go there, we just go anyway. Call it brave, call it stupid, call it a calling, but writers in spite of fear will reveal their innermost thoughts, their innermost “secrets;” secrets that most keep to themselves, secrets that writers share with […]
Every year at the beginning of the holiday season I tell myself I am going to enjoy this year… But somehow the season proves itself to be stressful and just beyond my enjoyment meter. It’s a beast all its own. Why does it seem that others are able to gather up the holiday and carry […]
