Hopped on a train down a winding road. Road it like a rollercoaster wondering which turns would flip my stomach and which would make me scream with frightened delight. All suited up for a train that was never supposed to have come. But tightly I held onto the […]
It’s ok to be bold, brash, and boisterous It’s not for an hour, a day, or a month It’s for a time to come generation past generation It’s a desire to be better and do better It’s a belief that we can be better for the collective It’s […]
She could see from her webcam that the package had arrived. She had been waiting and waiting and planning. It was all that she could think about for days. She was ready to start a new life. And this box had it all. She felt full of life […]
Anchors are important. They hold you in place at where you need to be. They can also proverbially weigh you down. Sometimes purposefully. Sometimes unknowingly. At times you have to ask yourself what do you want to hold onto and what do you want to move towards to. […]
All that money All that adulation All that hindsight All that sunshine All that glory All that hairspray All the misty eyes All the bowling balls All the fake greetings All the fear All the pretty cakes Won’t save you
A long time ago- January 14 1984 to be exact- Dick Clark asked Madonna on American Bandstand “What do you hope will happen, not only in 1984 but for the rest of your professional life? What are your dreams? What’s left?” Madonna’s response was succint and to the […]
Often we wish people a good morning or a good evening. At this point, I don’t even know what that may mean. At times, they just seem to be empty phrases. Rote. They come out of our mouths before we even realize that we are stating these we […]
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Many moons ago, I came across the word “satisficer”. I love words and collecting them. I throw them into my memory bank and I pepper those words in certain conversation salads just to play around. Mind you, this is not the same as using fancy GRE or $10 […]
For the last four years or so, I have chosen my own word of the year. Proactively. Meaning that I select a word at year’s end for the upcoming year. It’s an aspirational or directional word. For this year the word I chose aas actually a phrase. It […]
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