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Our lives are simply a succession of nows.   (taken from PROMISES TO MYSELF, Conari Press) Cocoa calmly greeted me as I step out from the post office. Cocoa was an uber friendly chocolate Labrador Retriever. I was buzzingly busy with  errands,  I had the next thing drawing me forward.  Cocoa invited me into her dog…

Embrace your convictions without apology.   (quote from PROMISES TO MYSELF, Conari Press)   “Well, I’m sorry, but I have to disagree with you…” Conflict is not at the top of many people’s list of favorite things.  There are times when a deeply held conviction requires that we take a different path.  Choosing a different road…

Extend your hand with the strongest reach.  (from PROMISES TO MYSELF, Conari Press)   I’m carried a letter dated December 26, 1772 around in my journal for the month of September last year.  Did the author of this letter have any idea while penning this letter that 238 years later an artist would carry around…

concentric circles. ever outward. a good word, a helpful gesture, and generosity of spirit.   these are the resilient… jewels that hold the real worth in the world.

I was in the middle of a creative muddle when my phone notified me I had a text message.  My husband was all out of cold medicine and his cough was starting up.  Could I please go to the pharmacy?  I kicked into overdrive.  I wanted to finish my project and I wanted to help…

You can call a radio station and ask that a song be played, “dedicated to…” someone special.  You can make a donation to an organization and dedicate that generosity to a particular person.  Dedicating a book to someone is a lot like that.  In the midst of laboring over the content for LIFE BEGINS WHEN…

People often ask me if receiving  a brand new book I’ve written is like having a baby.  Comparing creating anything to a mom giving birth is a little too much.  While the actual birth experience only exists for me in my imagination I’ve walked with many friends through the journey of pregnancy and birth.  I…

The irony of the artistic moment was not lost on me. I was laying out a design based on the word IMPERFECTION.  I ran out of space in the design field and had to wrap the last four letters in a round curve bending down toward the bottom of the page. Perfectly imperfect. I laughed…

It has been said so many different ways.  “While others sleep, you stand watch.” My husband and I share from our basket, whether it is a little low or flowing over the brim, with soldiers that are deployed on foreign soil.  We think of the small platoon which we have “adopted” every day.  And we…

Let me confess, at the first, that this photo is over a year old.  Since I’m still growing my hair out from my S.T.A.N.D. against bullying effort – it’ll be quite some time before I have this much atop my head!  But here’s the point of the photo – Go easy on your special Valentine’s…
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