Love, life, & Living
Changing Your Health For Good
This post is all about Changing Your Health For Good. Forever. Through failure. Through good times and bad. Through sickness and health. Amen It’s doggie story time! After spending three days with my new dog Peanut, I gushed to my friend, who is a veterinarian, “He’s so good. Never barks and just wants to…
Read MoreTHE DOG YEAR – first chapter sneak peek
Chapter One It’s Not About the Breast In the hospital parking ramp, Lucy snuck a glance at a new mother placing her infant into an elaborate car seat. Her husband stood hovering at her shoulder, his hand gently touching her hip. The woman lingered, gazing at the tiny, beet-faced infant, love fairly oozing from her…
Read MoreFeel Better Little-By-Little Week Two
What Would You Do If You Felt Better? You know how “they,” Oprah, inspirational speakers, Pinterest pinners ask the question “What would you do if you weren’t afraid?” It’s a great question. But it’s not my question…. My question is: “What would you do if you felt better?” What would you do if you weren’t…
Read MoreListen To Your Mother
Come As Your Favorite Saint Day On Mother’s day people from all over the nation read, celebrate, and notarize mother and mother’s stories everywhere.
Read MoreSuccess tips #4, #5, #6
Stick to your guns when you are right Revise when you are wrong Have the wisdom to know the difference (there’s your tweet) If this sounds suspiciously like the AA credo, well I can’t argue with you there. It’s important to know in both writing and life who you are. It’s important to know who…
Read MoreHow to be a successful writer (SNHU graduation speech 2013)
When the MFA class of 2013 graduated I was able to get in the last word, which of course I love. Among other things, I provided a list of 15 items for success as a writer. Actually, if you just read 1 through 14 you will find the 14 things you need to be successful…
Read MoreSuccess Tip #2 and #3
It’s sounds so obvi (as my daughter would say) To be a successful author you have to try It’s like Pink says: You’ve gotta get up and try, and try, and try. My best friend in high school was good at everything and so I pretended I was too. It was like taking a vitamin. I…
Read MoreSuccess Tip #1
Take your meds. Whatever meds they be. Maybe your “meds” are your friends. Maybe you need to eat carbohydrates despite the fact that they are wrongly considered the meth of this dietary generation. It’s possible you need really nice cotton t-shirts or fresh flowers every 3rd Wednesday of the month. It’s very possible that you…
Read MoreThis Just In: You Can Buy Happiness
Michael Norton’s Ted talk. Give it away, a little here and there because getting more isn’t cutting it. This makes me want to sing. Just take a minute to watch it….after a shower, just before you go to bed, while you are waiting to pick up your kids at the endless school pick-up line. Watch…
Read MoreIt takes an army to save girls.
I teach health to twenty-year olds who make a lot of bad decisions. The college years are known for that kind of thing and it is mostly written off as growing pains. All those bad decisions take time though and my thinking is this. If you have the time for all those bad decisions then…
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