I’m scared to write anymore. I’m afraid to offend or rile someone who I love, but who holds a different view. But that’s the problem, isn’t it? We are all so scared. There was an election this week in the United States of America, did you hear about that? Yeah, they are rioting and shooting in the…
Five Minute Friday: Listen*
*Since I’ve been out of practice with my writing and posting lately, I’m going to get my toes wet by re-visiting an old favorite practice: Five Minute Fridays. This is a group of writers who meet over the interwebs each week. The host provides one word that we each sit down and write about for five minutes,…
Why I won’t quit Facebook:
Facebook was made available to the general public in February 2006. 10 years later there are over 1.65 Billion users. That is more users than the entire population of China, who interestingly, bans access to Facebook along with Iran and North Korea. But other than those three countries the entire world is represented on this network. Studies…
There has to be a change – in us.
Tsunami’s of tragedy won’t stop happening. I have a fiction piece on the blog about the refugee crisis. I was going to write another installment after reading a heartbreaking article on the children, mothers, and fathers dying in record numbers. I wanted to put a human face to the tragedy and continue to research the drive behind…
Surprised by Winter….
I ran off. I’m sorry. One of the basic tenets of a good blog is an implicit contract between the writer and the reader that they will both show up. It’s been almost a month since I posted last, and that post was, ironically, a bold ask for readers to provide support. And then I left. I’m…
Why is asking for help so hard…
I have always been passionate about sharing my favorite things: books, make-up, kitchen gadgets, etc. You can ask my mom (she is probably laughing just reading this). I am always telling her about some life changing book, tv show, gadget, etc and encouraging her to give it a try. Inevitably it will take quite some time until…
We are more alike than we are different…
I asked for suggestions on where we go from here on my Facebook page and have had a few messages and conversations, so today I’m going to pull from those and answer a few spoken and unspoken questions. We’ll start with a simple one: How are you doing (after sharing so publicly)? Thanks for asking, I’m doing…