Ahh - college...

Dara Marie, my darling college roomie from the U Dub insisted I watch this video and at nine minutes - this reminds me more of Madtown than I care to admit...Anyone else nostalgic for college once in a while (or every Friday night?) ;)

Only Me...no seriously!

So I had this wonderful facial today in Brookfield. A hydrofacial by Taylor at L'Image. I left with my twenty-year old glowing face and a new serum that Taylor thought I might like. She asked me to "like" the salon on Facebook so that I might get some good deals in the future which of course, I did.

When I checked out their facebook page, I found a YouTube snippet on my new serum. Watch it if you want to wonder why things like this only happen to me - yeah, that's right, my new serum was developed from foreskin. I'll say it again, in case you missed it...foreskin.

Only me - time to wash my face and bring my skin to life with my new serum - good night all and tell me - anything you've ever bought, THEN found out what's in it?!?!?

My Favorite Sonnet

I've been reading a ton (instead of writing). Finished Open by Andre Agassi and Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand - loved both of them. But I always go back to my first great love, the words that I can't live without - William Shakespeare.

Here's my favorite sonnet:

Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed,
The dear repose for limbs with travel tired;
But then begins a journey in my head
To work my mind, when body's work's expired:
For then my thoughts--from far where I abide--
Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee,
And keep my drooping eyelids open wide,
Looking on darkness which the blind do see:
Save that my soul's imaginary sight
Presents thy shadow to my sightless view,
Which, like a jewel hung in ghastly night,
Makes black night beauteous, and her old face new.
Lo! thus, by day my limbs, by night my mind,
For thee, and for myself, no quiet find.

What author has inspired you the most? Allowed your heart to open and fall in love with words?

Saying good-bye

I'm losing a best friend today. One that I haven't had in my life nearly long enough. My heart is breaking but God put him in my life for a reason and I know in my heart, someday we'll be together again.

My dog, Stogey is very sick...dying. He got his death sentence about two months ago at the vet, interstitial pleuritis, but then he rallied and gave me the best two months with him in my life. I cherish every day, every moment we've had together and I don't want things to change.

I hate change. Inevitable change.

I know people get way too attached to pets, knowing at the get-go that you'll have to let them go before you are ready, but we open our hearts, tears down our walls, and let them in anyway.

My tears may be less tomorrow but my heart will be just as heavy.

I mourn the loss of one of my best friends but thank God for giving him to me at all. I didn't deserve him. He blew my mind with his capacity to love.

Rest in peace Stogey...

Every Day Fiction book released!

Sweet!! My second short story has officially been published and is available from Amazon (and B&N) - they even offer it in hardcover. I'm super excited to see this particular story in print. It is a flash fiction piece about a hospice worker who longs to have one more chance to see her deceased husband. The story made this anthology because it was one of the top 100 stories as selected by Every Day Fiction last year.

Z is for Zen

Wow - I finished the blog challenge - yeah me, during an especially interesting month at that. Here's one last video...some things are good enough to wrap up and put a bow on top. ;)

Y ask Why?

I'm really wishing I was at the beach right now. I miss the beach every day. Why?

Because here in reality, I sometimes over analyze my life and other people's lives. As a writer, I can't help but constantly try to figure out what makes people tick.

But once in a while, I need to quit asking why and just allow life to continue down its winding road. I need to take a step back, not question or intervene, and just let life play out.

What about you? Do you love trying to figure out what makes people tick? Then are you a back seat observer or do you throw yourself into the fray?