Category Archives: inspiration

Chasing Butterflies

Wow, I have been off the blogging grid for quite some time.  It’s been several months since I have written a blog post, consistently posted on social media, or wrote a newsletter.  I feel as though I have fallen off … Continue reading

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What Do I Do With My Blog?

I am a creature of habit, and I HATE change.  But change is a necessary evil.  It leads to progress, and progress leads to success.  And success is what we all strive to achieve. One morning, as I sat in … Continue reading

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BELIEVE in the New Year

Are you ready for a New Year? It’s that time again when we prepare to say goodbye to the old and look forward to ringing in the new.  Armed with our laundry list of resolutions and promises to ourselves to … Continue reading

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A need to escape: Giving up control

  One morning as I sat down in my usual spot at the kitchen table to study what the day ahead was going to bring, according to my lengthy task list and scraps of paper with meticulous details, it dawned … Continue reading

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An Enormous Leap of Faith

When I sat down one morning almost two years ago, I knew I wanted to write a love story.  Just one.  Now sitting here in the same spot at the kitchen table staring at the keyboard that is missing letters, … Continue reading

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Jump Start Your Writing

After a summer of non-writing distractions, a constant stream of activities and time spent with my busy children, I now find myself at the beginning of a new school year faced with a quiet house and empty hours just ripe … Continue reading

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Write that book

  “If you want to write, you can. Fear stops most people from writing, not lack of talent, whatever that is. Who am I? What right do I have to speak? Who will listen to me if I do? You’re … Continue reading

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“Old Fashioned” Inspiration and Romance

Late one night I was standing in the kitchen folding laundry, the last one in the house still awake.  The children and my husband had, as usual, lumbered off to bed leaving the TV blaring in the empty family room.  … Continue reading

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Muse or Madness

My mind always wanders.  Whose doesn’t?  We are all faced with daunting schedules of daily tasks, looming deadlines and numerous to-do lists that we all jot down in our desperation to keep our lives straight. But for me, in addition … Continue reading

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I am honored

Tomorrow is a very big day for me.  I am holding my very first book signing!  Now, when I say book signing everyone automatically thinks Barnes and Noble.  Not so much.  Think small, rural library.  A building that once housed … Continue reading

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