What’s in a book?

What’s in a book? If you read close enough perhaps you may discover YOU in the text. What makes me cry, laugh, gasp in awe, or wrinkle my forehead when reading a text? I submit, something in the text tickled or assaulted my emotions to the point I am acutely aware I have engaged the […]

School Days: Impact Moments

The past is beautiful because one never realizes an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past. -Virginia Woolf

Bounce Back Ability

November 7, 2021 I don’t know about you, but I have suffered breaks in my stride many times throughout my life. I’ve been down, both fallen and kicked (for real). I have experienced set-backs and set-ups; I have smashed and slammed into brick walls. I have taken the proverbial walk of two steps forward and […]

Holy holler!

Holy Holler! October 23, 2021 Today, while writing I tuned to the Marvin Gaye station streaming on Pandora. Marvin, the trailblazing singer, songwriter and performer, broke conventional boundaries in the 70s at Tamla Motown by excelling in all three genres. As I listen to his music today, I have given him another title, that of […]

Are we free yet?

Do you remember when you were a young child taking family road trips to another city or state? Do you remember how you felt when your destination seemed so far away? If you were anything like me I was an impatient passenger who nagged the driver with a litany of questions, the most annoying one […]

Power up your writing using the right words!

November 2, 2021 “You can’t write without living fully…” – Monica Wood I agree with the quote. Living fully contributes to rich and deep writing. Personal experiences open the mind to possibilities; many are recorded on a writer’s page. Having said that, someone can be the most profound thinker on the planet, the most traveled, […]