One thing “they” don’t tell you about becoming an author is the marketing involved. It’s time-consuming and hard, but that’s part of the business. On the yay side, “they” don’t mention the perks, at least I never heard any. One benefit of the author/blogging life is being able to promote things I believe in. Over…
Unless you’ve been off grid this week, you’ve heard about the college scandal involving celebrity parents, coaches, and wealthy parents allegedly paying to assure their child earned a spot at a desired college through illegal means that include mail fraud. I think like the rest of the world, I was shocked at the names attached…
I’ve blogged more than once about the struggles I’ve had the last couple years. Most of it has been related to menopause, something I first entered at age 38 thanks to surgery. A couple years ago, the symptoms accelerated and it’s been at times a bare-knuckle ride to fight the hungries, the sleeplessness, the volcanic…
Each February I try to write about our situation in case there are new readers who might not know, or perhaps they are living something similar and could use the encouragement. When I got sick from drinking the bottled water on the Mexican cruise, I was told I was one in 10,000. I had similar…
It’s a series I never saw coming, but God did. It started with middle school and some tough times for our teen daughter. So heartbreaking that she lamented the pain and expressed her desire to help girls before negative words hit them in their vulnerable years. As she shared, she was telling a story. I…
When I was a child, I had a recurring dream that either my mom or I was driving a car up the exit that led to our mall, and the brakes went out. Even as a kid I figured it meant something, and most likely, we both wanted to control something we couldn’t, and life…