Welcome, 2023! Although I’ve seen a meme going around that says: “Nobody claim 2023 as “your year.” We’re all going to walk in real slow. Be good. Be quiet. Be cautious and respectful. Don’t touch anything.” Can you relate? Life has sure been “interesting” the past few years! I’m so thankful to know that this…
Wow, the older I get, the quicker the years fly by! This year, I wasn’t quite as successful at meeting my goals as usual. There were two main things that affected staying on track. One was that writing a longer book last year (A Wide and Pleasant Place) took “more” longer than expected. It wasn’t…
Here we are, already a few days into 2022! The years seem to go by so quickly, even while each week seems to drag. I’m not sure how that happens, to be honest. But 2022 is here, and with that realization, so is my annual post with goals for the upcoming year. This is what…
The second year of the pandemic is drawing to a close. This has affected pretty much everything in our lives, right? For the most part, we’ve learned to live with it. We had high hopes a year ago that this would soon all be in the rearview mirror. Now, we’re beginning to wonder if life…
Oh, look! It’s another new year. 2020 may have seemed three years long, but it’s well and truly in the rearview mirror, and here we are at the beginning of 2021. There are just a couple of footsteps visible so far, and a wide open expanse in front of us. What will YOU do with…
Well. 2020 sure didn’t turn out anything like we all thought it would, did it?!?! The Year of the Coronavirus has certainly thrown a monkey wrench in the way the world operates. It shattered our travel plans for the year and threatened to derail my writing career completely, since I barely wrote a word in…