Please excuse me while I fall apart. Don’t mind me. I’m just having a bad day, a terrible week and an even worse month. The kids are sick again. I have to call into work again. I haven’t slept much lately. My one afternoon off, my only scheduled free time for the past several weeks …
For some reason this quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson has been stuck in my head for days now… “Life is a journey, not a destination.” I even had these words in my head as I was climbing into my car yesterday. When the radio came on, the band Journey was playing. It was their song, …
Rejections are a big part of life, especially to a writer’s life like mine. We receive them quite frequently. Usually they are some standard, boring reply that says your work was not selected but to try submitting again. But every now and then, you receive something off-the-wall, like this one I had in my inbox …
My husband and I attended the theatre to see a local stage production of The Hobbit over the weekend. We both truly enjoyed it. It was the second play he and I have seen in three months. Now we’re both hooked on seeing more. (Prior to this year, it had been several years since we …
Recently I was feeling overwhelmed, overworked and under-appreciated. Blah, blah, blah. I have a good life and I really shouldn’t complain, I know. Still despite my best efforts, I couldn’t shake these emotions of disappointment in myself. Why was I letting life’s little problems get to me and take the best of me? I …