Happy New Year’s Eve. It’s an especially special day at our house since it’s our son’s birthday. He’s twenty. How did that happen? Wasn’t it just yesterday that after 2 1/2 months of bed rest, the doctor sent me to the hospital to be induced. Three hours of pain later, a nurse said, “Maybe you’ll […]
A Letter to Yourself by Merrillee Whren
Recently I attended a writing workshop. The speaker talked about writing short stories for a women’s magazine. I’ve never done anything like that probably because I tend to be long-winded and can’t tell a story in 800 words. However, I listened with interest. Was it something I could do? I decided I should give it […]
A New Year, A New Me
It’s January 3, 2019. How many times have you written 2018 on something in the last three days? Since I’m writing this before the New Year–I have big plans to binge watch some shows, rest, and write prior to this post going live–I probably have only done it a handful of times, especially since I […]
Dream BIG!
December 31st!!! Where did the year go? It seems the older I get the faster the year seems to go by. Wasn’t it just a few weeks ago that we celebrated Independence Day, and a few days before that Valentine’s Day? And here it is hours away from 2017. For the last few years, I have […]
I’ll Be Happy “When”
by: Staci Stallings Recently I was talking with some writer friends who are working on marketing their books. Now stay with me because this isn’t about writing. The conversation turned to sales and how many sales people had or didn’t have for that month. I had been having some success in that area and mapped […]
Sunday Edition
Welcome to the last Sunday Edition of 2014! Has this year flown by, or is it just me? It feels like I only blinked a few times and, here we are, on the cusp of 2015. Do you make resolutions each year on January first? How do you do at keeping those? I quit resolutions […]