How to Help Your Favorite Authors

“People can’t read a book if they don’t know it exists. All authors need to do marketing, regardless of how they published.” ~ Jo Linsdell I’m a bit under the weather as I write this. I guess it’s my year to get a cold, so I’m reposting an article I wrote last year. It’s particularlyContinue reading “How to Help Your Favorite Authors”

Themes for My Year

“I write about the power of trying, because I want to be okay with failing. I write about generosity because I battle selfishness. I write about joy because I know sorrow. I write about faith because I almost lost mine, and I know what it is to be broken and in need of redemption. IContinue reading “Themes for My Year”

Trying Something New

“Be brave enough to try something new; you might just succeed.” ~ Stacey Kehoe “I want to keep trying something new all the time. It is the only way to grow.” ~ Akkineni Nagarjuna “I’m open for possibilities. I’m open for choices. I always welcome new ideas. I’m always eager to learn. I’m never goingContinue reading “Trying Something New”

Unbridled Joy

“Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain … To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices – today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.” ~ Kevyn Aucoin “Find a placeContinue reading “Unbridled Joy”

Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

“Life is a series of experiences each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.” ~ Henry Ford “We all get whereContinue reading “Two Steps Forward, One Step Back”