For Valentine’s Day

Here is one of my favorite love poems in honor of St. Valentine’s Day. [i carry your heart with me(i carry it in] BY E. E. CUMMINGS i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)i am never without it(anywhere i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done by only...
Focused Time

Focused Time

This is my view for the weekend.  I am at a much needed Writers’ Retreat with the ladies from Pretty in Ink, a writers group I am a part of.  As any writer knows, there is a difference between time and brainspace, and you need both to truly be inspired and...

Reading

Just read: The Selection, The Elite, and The One by Kiera Cass.  YA dystopian (with hope) but totally worth the read. Currently reading: The Lord of the Rings by Tolkien (again) and The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley. When I was working as a...

Thanksgiving

In college, I read the journals of John Wesley (an interesting read) and every year on his birthday, he would write down his thoughts about his life.  He would analyze himself and look at the past year.  This year, my birthday happens to fall on Thanksgiving Day.  I...
Christmas came early!

Christmas came early!

My friend, Valarie, and I got to attend a one-man show of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” performed by his great-great grandson, Gerald Dickens.  It was fabulous, and in a great setting, too (the Cabin by the Spring at Andrew Jackson’s...