Turkey Day Thanks…

My Orlando family is small and so even with the day off, I am at home writing for a couple of hours before I head off to dinner. My contribution to dinner is some homemade cranberry sauce.  I have never attempted it before, but the recipe was simple enough. It sits in the frig awaiting …

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Day Three ~ Gratitude Check

I am grateful for being able to work. Pure and simple. I know being employed is a blessing and I am grateful. I am not rich, but the jobs I hold help me to pay bills and afford a small rental house. Some months paying those bills is easier than others, but it is getting …

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Second Day of Gratitude

I am grateful for my depression. Grateful for the moments of joy that I feel in between the lows create by years of ugly mental paradigms, negative self-talk and off kilter brain chemistry. It makes me appreciate the friends new and old who have stuck by my side when my brain has been in a …

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The Days of Gratitude

Some of my friends are posting daily on Facebook what they are most grateful for this year.  Every day this month, they have posted things they are grateful for and each time I have read one of their posts a smile comes across my face. I love them, but haven't replicated them or create my own …

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And Some Nights, There Are Miracles

Below is a link to Author Stant Litore's latest blog. Read his words and look at the accompanying images. Words are beautiful and can renew your faith... And Some Nights, There Are Miracles.

The Words That Stuck A Cord…

This evening, I came home from work and discovered that my laptop was a still a school. No comfy writing chair for me this evening just a straight back dining room chair and a cranky not old, but definitely not new desktop. Even my beloved Kindle, carrier of more books than any purse can handle …

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Another Year and Another Birthday!!

Last Wednesday, I turned thirty-seven.  Birthdays are always full of mixed blessings.  This year the scale tipped in my favor and there more happy moments than sad ones. Marking birthdays is always a dicey game. What have I accomplished in the last year? Finished my first book, Blood Child. Wrote at least three new short …

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Tracie’s Take (A Guest Blog)

Below please find my version of this article, that I want to share with you, the internet. May it bring you all the inner peace you can cram into your backpacking gear right before downward dogging it atop that mountain at sunrise. :: Do whatever the fuck you want. :: Do whatever the fuck you …

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Loving Free Books…

This evening on the way to teach my evening classes, I thought about how much I am in love with two new books.  Well, one of them isn't new new, but both are new to me (kind of like my car). Then I was a bad teacher and checked Facebook.  So rather than a poem or …

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