by admin | Mar 5, 2015 | Blogs
We hear all the time about the dumbing down of America. And that started decades ago. We’ve seen it progress in publishing through the years. When my first novel, By the Book, was published, the industry geared its books to an eighth-grade reading level. Doesn’t...
by admin | Mar 4, 2015 | Blogs
Especially early mornings! Sometimes I just want to sleep in. Ya know? Even when you’re motivated and filled with purpose, when you know why you’re doing what you’re doing, when you truly believe in it, well, sometimes you just get tired. Enough whining! This...
by admin | Mar 3, 2015 | Blogs
Life is just crazy. Yes, it is. We all walk through the insanity thinking that we’re the sane ones. And then, we realize that well, maybe not . . . Like yours, my life is always filled with running nine ways to Sunday. My dear friends point this out often. “If...
by admin | Feb 27, 2015 | Blogs
Billions of them. About, well, just about everything I set out to do! I had those negative tapes circling around my head for so long, they think they live there. And anytime I set out on a new endeavor (or an old one I’ve picked back up again), the first thing that...
by admin | Feb 26, 2015 | Blogs
I am really into joy. I just love it, don’t you? Even the most crudgemudgian among us—which we all can be at times!—loves to experience joy. Yesterday while driving to the repro vet (sometimes I think all I ever do is go to the vet!) I heard the coolest thing on...
by admin | Feb 25, 2015 | Blogs
Last night the verdict came in on the man who killed Chris Kyle and Chad Littlefield. Dubbed The American Sniper Trial after the film about Kyle, this drew to an initial close, if not an end, to the story. We live in a culture fixated on celebrities of all kinds,...