Ready Or Not…
My cell phone rings, and it's my doctor's office, and I know this because long ago, and what now seems far away, I was smart enough to program their number so if I ever needed to call them, I'd already have it stored in contacts. Which, also means, should they have...
20 great (writerly/provocative/memorable) quotes by John Steinbeck
He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the Nobel Prize for Literature and he authored 27 books. Even if you haven't read them, you've heard of them--Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, Of Mice and Men, The Winter of Our Discontent. Ever the...
Sparkly Green Earrings
Brilliant title & product tie-in! One of the things I like most about myself is how genuinely excited I get when a friend earns success by pursuing her passion. Rather than fall culprit to jealousy or defeat, my heart does herkies (to...
Lisa Leonard One Day Sale (25% discount with coupon code)
For you smarter-than-me-planner-aheaders, the perfect addition to your daughter's (or wife's or girlfriend or WHATevah) Easter Basket: a Lisa Leonard bauble. And in a stroke of perfect timing, you can get hand-stamped pieces from her store -...
Wonderfully YOU
After 25 years, he still doesn't completely understand me. It was just the two of us alone in the car that day, when I casually mentioned entering the HGTV Dream Home giveaway. "Why do you enter giveaways?" he asks, incredulous that anyone...
What happens when Downton Abbey meets One Direction (putting a little HappyFantastic in your day!)
In case you're wondering if: a) I've all but given up writing "real" posts... b) I'm obsessing over just a wee bit too much over ... c) I don't get out enough... Let me assure you: a) I AM writing-- I've got...
For the love of Downton Abbey
I can thank social media for it; though I have a love/hate relationship with Facebook, it was there I first made her acquaintance. Friends would not stop talking about her. And I mean friend-friends, the people I know in real life, whose...
Time, tradition, truth and honor
i. There’s something mesmerizing about the way a creek flows…constant, relentless unapologetic, purposeful; a one-directional wanderer, an effortless meander, masterful sculptress slowly chiseling banks and boulders. Imperceptible erosion or violent torrent,...