7 Actions You Can Take Right Now To Be In A Good Mood

We all get in crummy moods.  Oh, not the depressive or grieving ones.  Those take a different sort of attention to manage.  But just the down-home, from a definable source or not, garden-variety bad mood. We don’t need to list the causes 🙂 I don’t know about you, but...

We Have This Hope As An Anchor And Things Will Get Better

We all go through dark times.  Funny thing about this life—bad stuff will happen.  It just will. And sometimes, it seems as though the negative stays and stays, moving in like a rabble-rousing relative who refuses to vacate the premises. Sadly, beating it over the...

Sometimes Life Just Has To Slow Down So You Can Focus

Do you ever feel like a rat in a maze?  Running from task to turn, spinning until you think, wasn’t I just here?  Chasing a non-existent tail around a sharp-angled curve? Ever feel that way? I’ve just had a sustained time of way too much to do.  We all have those...

This Is Why I Love To Write Fiction

Writing anything is creative, no?  Narrative non-fiction, any sort of non-fiction actually, blogging, article writing, all are creative endeavors. But those’re mostly left-brain undertakings, where you have a plan, an exact theme you’re writing to, usually with quite...

Stop Worrying And Be Free To Be An Assertive Woman

I lived much of my life as a worrier.  In fact, I’ve been known for it!  As friends often said, “Oh, I know you’ll worry.”  Doesn’t much matter what the “about” was.  I just worried. Fretted, may be a better word! As one friend said, “You always go to the dark side.” ...

The Legend Of The Weeping Woman Lives On

All through Latin America, a myth is told about the woman weeping upon the river bank in the dead of night.  She weeps eternally, for she has drowned her children in the dark waters below. Well, now, that’s a lovely myth, you say! Ah, the beauty of myths—the true ones...