Sunday Inspiration: “All you need is love…”
Sing along with me… “All you need is love, la, la, la, la, la. All you need is love, la, la, la, la, la. All you need is love, love, love is all you need.” These are some of the best known song lyrics in the world — thank you Beatles! — and they are…
Read MoreThe Lies We Tell
This morning I asked my Facebook Reader’s Page what they would like me to blog about. The answer was lies. Facebook has a secret new algorithm to determine which page posts our followers will see. The new method involves cases of microbrews, a smoky room, a table filled with uninhibited Gen-Xers and dice. Sometimes my posts go to more…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: The Journey of Purpose
I love it when I come across something that is so inspirational that it goes right to the heart of what it means to be human. Take a few minutes to watch this video by The Journey of Purpose, and you will not regret it. There are four participants, all of whom led or lead…
Read MoreThe Writing Process 2015: Letting Ideas Simmer
Are you reading along with my Writing Process 2015 posts? If not, I’ll catch you up quickly. This year I’m going to post occasionally as I write a novel due late this fall. I’ve talked about sniffing a story and the difference between flesh and flash as I ponder what my next novel should be. When…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: Amber’s Smile
Becoming a goddess doesn’t require any degrees of higher education or formal training of any kind. Becoming a goddess only requires a big heart and a passionate spirit. Take for example Jim Russ and his daughter Amber. Amber lived in a wheel chair here in Sarasota for all of her brief life of 21 years due to…
Read MoreWho Knew? The Winner is Endless Chain
On Tuesday I asked you to comment and tell me the title of a book that I wrote with a woman giving birth in a blizzard. Well, no one was more surprised than I was when quilter Shawn almost immediately named Endless Chain as the book. Was I surprised she’d gotten it so quickly? Nope,…
Read MoreLet It Snow? That’s a No! Blizzard 2015.
If you’re reading this today you have power. Yay you! I’m thrilled for you. Still I know that your thoughts are with all the people on the east coast who probably don’t have power, heat or warm water today. We’re wishing them the best, right? For those of you immersed in blizzard 2015 who are lucky enough to be able to…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: Elizabeth & Hazel
When I read this inspirational article, “The Many Lives of Hazel Bryan,” over MLK weekend, I was deeply moved. Some of us still remember that tense time in the fall of 1957 when 9 courageous black kids integrated Central High School in Little Rock. It may be hard to believe today that the governor of…
Read MoreThe Perfect Study
I’m moving again. Yes, I know I moved recently. Luckily this time I’m only moving steps away. After trying to finish The Color of Light in the prettiest room in the house, (the room where everyone convinced me I could do my best writing), I learned a valuable lesson. Pay attention to your instincts, or the perfect study,…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: Black Like Me
Have you read the book, Black Like Me? A best seller in the 60s, it was a big influence in many lives, including my own, for becoming aware of the racism in our society. Black Like Me was written in 1961 by John Howard Griffin, who artificially changed his skin color from white to black…
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