I was with a friend this weekend who asked me what kinds of things I look for in creating a story. “All kinds of things,” I responded. “It really just depends on what moves me at the time.” We were at a park with a beautiful lake. It was warm, with a breeze that modulated […]
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I love surprises! Birthday surprises, holiday surprises, baptismal surprises (ok, I admit there really aren’t too many of those), I love them all. When somebody tells me they have a surprise for me, I am absolutely overjoyed. I am not the type who tries to suss out what it is, though. I don’t need to […]
Time. It seems that it, like our vacations, is always in short supply. It is strange, because I so often feel like I have somehow been cheated out of a few hours. I know I am supposed to get 24, yet strangely, I always seem to run out of day at the end of my […]
It is an exciting time. The holidays are here, we know that because one of our local stations is playing holiday music 24/7 (hey, that sounds familiar). There is a chill in the air (it got down to nearly 70 here in L.A. burrrr). I feel an overall excitement in the energy of the day. […]
While chatting with a friend yesterday, she told me that some strange occurrences were taking place at her work. She said the lines of communication had been going haywire all day. Interpersonal communication was being affected, as evidenced by misunderstandings and mistaken intentions. She explained to me that it was because Mercury is in retrograde. […]