Living Your Personal Legend

Dec 14, 2015 | Books, The Writing Life

They were looking only for gold,” his companion answered. “They were seeking the treasure of their Personal Legend, without wanting actually to live out the Personal Legend. Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist While reading The Alchemist, I felt my quest to be a published...

Best Book I've Read This Year

Dec 13, 2015 | Books

The Bookends column in Sunday’s New York Times Book Review asked sixteen authors what was the best book, new or old, he or she read this year. Only two of the books listed stood out to me. The first one was Outline by Rachel Cusk.  It’s about a woman...

Happy Birthday, Frank!

Dec 12, 2015 | Uncategorized

Today is Frank Sinatra’s 100th birthday. I’ve been looking forward to it all week, and I’m not quite sure why. Maybe it’s because his music seems to chronicle the details of my life. “My Way” was one of my father’s favorite...

Facebook Addiction

Dec 11, 2015 | Home

Rule number three of the December writing challenge was no interaction on any social media –– Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, etc until the blog was done.  The first few days felt like being on a diet. All I wanted to do was check my news feed and scroll through...

Grown Up Christmas List

Dec 10, 2015 | Inspirational Musing

Gloria Steinem’s “The Top Ten Things I Want For Christmas” speech from a BETTY’s holiday show, recently appeared on Huffington Post. Much like the David Letterman Show, it started at her number ten wish and worked its way to the number one. When...