Reminiscing…
pic courtesy of Google Images Do you miss flying? Rarely does a week pass that I’m not confronted with this question. Logical enough, since it was the career I chose. One I eventually left. Funny how long it has taken me to sort out an accurate reply. Being a competent pilot was consuming. Twenty-four hour…
Read MoreQuote of the week– “Put your mask on…”
pic compliments of Google images “Put your mask on first, before helping others…” i.e. Catch up on sleep. Take time to stretch your heart. Eat what you eat, when you eat it. Sit and stare into space without having to feel inclined to search for a comet or brainstorm about world peace. Say no as…
Read MoreQuote of the week–The earth under our feet.
“You look like a school teacher,” the Red Baron says describing my new glasses. “Let me guess, right now you’re thinking…where’s a math problem? Someone just give me a math problem, a hard one, one that will rack my big, fat brain.” My endearing and often times aggravating husband. And he wonders why I have…
Read MoreQuote of the week–Know Your Genotype
Mesomorph, hunter, cookie monster…Finally a meal plan that understands my true nature. E.L. Chappel author of Risk/Spirit Dance/Storm Chasers Accepting My Genetic Destiny aka The Glamorous Wife
Read MoreGratitude and Moving Forward
Hempe computer. I whisper just before climbing from of bed. The shaman return-to-me energy I’ve put out in the universe everyday since December 17th. D-day at my house. The morning three robbers hurled a cinder block through a living room window and entered our home with the Baron and I upstairs, no longer asleep…
Read MoreQuote of the week–The Peanuts
pic courtesy of google “Beethoven wasn’t so great…he never got his picture on bubble gum cards, did he, hum? How can you say someone is great who has never had his picture on bubble gum cards?” –Lucy Van Pelt, A Charlie Brown Christmas. Even though I sent a hard edit to my freelance editor this…
Read MoreQuote of the week–Unfinished Goals
“Our lives are continuous, not series of tasks to check off on a to-do list.” A father coaches an adult son as he tells his dad–when I get…than I can be… (Translated by my author decoder ring–If I just write 5000 more words, then I can relax and enjoy my day. Curious how exactly what…
Read More“Top Gun” 3D IMAX–Wide screen insight into writing a time-tested story
“Talk to me Goose,” the world renowned fighter pilot known as “Maverick” says as his F-14 Tomcat tears across the floor to ceiling screen during the remastered release of “Top Gun” on the film’s twenty-fifth anniversary. The Red Baron and I eagerly don our 3D glasses, giddily as if we are seeing the film for…
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“You know you had a good night when you wake up with chocolate on your forehead.” Happy post-St. Valentines.
Read MoreQuote of the week–Kick Butt
“Kick butt, take names, and then write a really great story about it.” Debra Allen, mesa- carrying Shaman and dear friend. “Welcome the challenges of our every day life with open arms–hard, easy, painful and joyous because only through these experiences is the path to the life we dream about.”
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