Validation …. Loading

Recently, I was given back my manuscript by one of my beta readers. Corrections were minimal, but helpful. Her praise for my book had me glowing. Someone liked my book! Validation is a wonderful thing. That tiny piece of positive erased all my doubts. Don’t get me...

Share your Chopsticks

I posted this on my personal blog a couple of years ago. I was skimming through the old posts looking for some inspiration and came across it. I do not need to embellish it, it speaks volumes without me adding a thing. Here is the original post…I hope here is...

Holiday exhaustion

I’m peopled out and it’s only the 9th of December. Seems year over year that the good will reprieve of Thanksgiving and gratitude wears out sooner and sooner. I haven’t stopped yet to track it, but I’m mighty tempted to do just that. I’d...

Escape

I have been a reader for many many moons. I can remember sitting in the reading circle in grade school. You know the one. The one where everyone takes a turn reading. *sigh* Yeah…you know my pain. There were some slow readers, so I would read ahead, because (as...

Quitters, apathy & trying again.

Every year we do a little holiday thing for the families we have served during the year. Nothing big…just a day, some baked goods, some music, a chance to say Hi. Three years ago it was a cold, crappy, sleeting day and there was a large crowd. Last year not so...