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I’ll Never Get This

I never glimpsed the inner core of my mom, and I don’t have her stories I can read in a book to celebrate her birthday today. I do have her poems, and I’ll make that into a book. But if I could have anything from Mom, it’d be her stories, the heart of her stories from her perspective.

Our relationship was rocky at best. I loved my mom, but I kept my distance because we were so much alike. I hated how sensitive she was and could feel peoples’ feelings. Yes, she was empathetic, and so am I. That means she took in peoples’ feelings and processed them and moved to such Read More

Eavesdropper

I work intensely in creating and writing, managing and wearing many hats as a small business entrepreneur. How do I energize myself?

I go to one of my favorite neighborhood restaurants two to three times a week. I need a break, and it’s not too far to drive, and the traffic doesn’t suck to get there and back to my workspace in my home. This break is an improvement to me compulsively working in panic mode and feeling like there isn’t enough time during the day. We all feel like that right? I want time to work for me, so I make nourishment a priority. Novel concept right? Well, wh Read More

Solve The Problem

What’s The Problem?

Your future family and their kids knowing you after you’ve been long gone.

I went to pick Xavier up from Day Care yesterday. Wednesday afternoon is my Gramma time with him. I also had a presentation at my first retirement community  (yes, it went well) and I had books and a poster board of themes in the back seat.

I put Xavier in the car seat, and he said, “What’s That?” and pointed to a husband and wife book I had done a few years back. He didn’t wait for me to answer, he grabbed it and looked at it for a full four minutes before putting it down. He didn Read More

What story do you tell when you have to leave your loved one for a short amount of time or a long amount of time?

[embed width="700" height="250"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20iLecKwj0U[/embed] Duration: 12.58 minutes. Chapters: 11 Read More