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Christmas in Hawaii

December 26, 2010 by ·

Breaching whales, shorts, short sleeved shirt, sandals and fresh pineapple on the beach. What more can one ask for? Loving the warm, overcast day we are having. Surfers with bikinis, warm sand, big waves, the North Shore of Oahu offers all of it on a wonderful car ride. We stopped at a fruit stand, by [...]

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Children Say Sorry, How About You?

December 25, 2010 by ·

One of the hardest things we do in our life is say that we are sorry. Saying sorry is an admission of guilt and an opportunity for reconciliation. The fact that guilt is something people do not accept as part of our life is what keeps most from going through the cleansing process of an [...]

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Christmas Eve 2010

December 24, 2010 by ·

Christmas Eve is here. Steve and I are in Hawaii. My husband has wished for a Hawaiian Christmas since he was 6 years old. Now, we are here. Forty four years later, we are here. My daughter, Nadya, who is a First Sergeant in the Marine Corps, is making Christmas Eve dinner for her Marines. [...]

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Let Them Walk All Over Me?

December 21, 2010 by ·

“I can’t help it. Am I supposed to stand here and take it? Am I supposed to allow everyone to walk all over me?” We have all heard this call to arms. We have all heard this false untrue expletive from people we know and care about. The idea that one person is being “picked [...]

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Despair Turns to Joy

December 19, 2010 by ·

When I allow despair to take hold of my spirit, I create havoc in my life. Contrary it is to belief. Darkness does flow slowly in. Like the twilight before the night Slowly, seeps all my faith, Drains out of me. There is no rhyme or reason to these feelings that abound. There is no [...]

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Simple Conversation: Update

December 17, 2010 by ·

My new novel, Simple Conversation is now available for pre-ordering on Amazon. The publication date is set for Feb 14, 2011 Happy Valentine’s Day Paperback Publisher: Heart Press (February 14, 2011) ISBN-10: 0983197806 ISBN-13: 978-0983197805

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Pure Heart and Overflowing Emotion

December 7, 2010 by ·

Childish vs. childlike   “I’m going to write because I cannot help it.” Charlotte Bronte On the face of it this is a rather benign statement. When I suggested that I liked that quote, someone told me not to encourage childish statements.   Childlike is what I thought of those words not childish. A quality [...]

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Sensitive Skin Fallacy

December 5, 2010 by ·

Saying that your face is sensitive is a true fallacy that seems to be prevalent amongst women of ages twenty through fifty. Our face is probably one of the toughest parts of our body since it is most exposed to the elements.  Our face is in the sun, the wind and the heat, the cold [...]

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I Write Because

December 2, 2010 by ·

I write. When asked when I started to write, I did not hesitate to answer. I always wrote. I always had a notebook with me. I jot down ideas. I wrote quotes. I wrote conversations. I wrote lists. I do not remember the last chunk of time that I was not writing. When asked how [...]

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