BLAHHG....BLAHHG...BLAHHG! (Book) https://www.Writing.Com/main/books.php/item_id/1645936 Making a conscious effort to get back with my writing. Decided to start up this blog again. Yet, this effort is really an effort. It's not about having time but managing my time in the day better. Thinking I really need to learn management skills, at least as far as time goes. There are days where there is so much time and I just want to do nothing because other days I've spent squeezing everything in so as to get to a day where I can do nothin...[Read Full Post] Sat, 26 Jan 2019 11:52:27 EST https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/950489 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/950489 I knew it would happen!!!....That moment in your life when you walk away from all the drama and people who create it. When you just wake up one morning and something inside you says, "Okay, it's time!!...It's 'enough' now!" You move on from places and people who darken your world and cause these 'ripples' in your life. You make the decision to surround yourself instead, with those who make you laugh. FORGET THE BAD AND FO...[Read Full Post] Sat, 26 Jan 2019 11:48:31 EST https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/950114 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/950114 Returning back from an 8 year hiatus...back on WDC! I'm reminded that it's been ten years now that I've been a member!! A good feeling to be back to my writing, but so unfamiliar with how to make things work on Writing.com. As I enter this adventure again, I take a look around...some old faces...some changes but making my way around. It's almost like coming home again. Guess it's time to take a look around and get acquainted with the &#3...[Read Full Post] Sat, 26 Jan 2019 11:50:22 EST https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/949926 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/949926 ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** This magically appeared in my life today, and...so thought enough of it to pass it on to you as 'food for thought'...Life is good!!! This is what you do. If you feel low, you stand tall. You mess up, you move on. You want to try something, try it, and if it was a stupid thing to try, you look it in the eye. There's no turning back. You apologize if you're so...[Read Full Post] Tue, 16 Nov 2010 10:48:13 EST https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/711518 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/711518 ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts. ~ Patrick Rothfuss (The Name of the Wind) With life's happenings...I sort of have been feeling like a lone autumn leaf that has fallen from an old oak tree...sitting alone...a gust of wind blowing me here and there, until finally a st...[Read Full Post] Mon, 15 Nov 2010 11:57:59 EST https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/711441 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/711441 ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** "Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level." ~Max L. Forman I think when I get to where I'm going...If there are some 'Gates' as the story describes, and there is someone there to greet me...I don't think he or she will be looking for the medals I won in this lifetime, nor the ribbons that were given to me on ...[Read Full Post] Thu, 11 Nov 2010 14:00:04 EST https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/711088 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/711088 ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be. ~Leo Tolstoy So...I am sitting across from a friend, who simply pours it out that her boyfriend of several months has called her 'twisted' and 'cold'...along with a long list of other things that I just can't remember. I sip my coffee and my mind wanders..here she is thinking she is ...[Read Full Post] Thu, 04 Nov 2010 12:12:05 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/710308 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/710308 ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree~ And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again. That would be good both going and coming back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches. ~Robert Frost I swear 'life is but a dream'...I wonder if...in truth...this is all but an ...[Read Full Post] Thu, 04 Nov 2010 11:39:15 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/709681 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/709681 ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** Do you know what it's like to love someone so much, that you can't see yourself without picturing her? Or what it's like to touch someone, and feel like you've come home? ~ Jodi Picoult (from the Book, The Pact It's been awhile...Yeah! It's been awhile! Alot of things happening, yet it just seems every time I manage to get in here...I find the message of a reminder in my mailbox that I...[Read Full Post] Thu, 04 Nov 2010 11:37:34 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/702465 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/702465 ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** Do onto others, as you'd like done to yourself. Isn't that how that saying goes?...And well...it was Wallace Black Elk who was quoted as saying something similar. He said, "If bad words come, I let them come in one ear and go out the other. I never let them come out of my mouth. If a bad word comes in your ear and then comes out of your mouth, it will go someplace and hurt somebody....[Read Full Post] Wed, 12 Jun 2019 18:01:01 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/701325 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/701325