Samara O'Shea's Blog, page 3
May 20, 2019
Breathtakingly Beautiful
“Life is amazing. And then it’s awful. And then it’s amazing again. And in between the amazing and awful it’s ordinary and mundane and routine. Breathe in the amazing, hold on through the awful, and relax and exhale through the ordinary. That’s just living heartbreaking, soul-healing, amazing, awful, ordinary life and it’s breathtakingly beautiful. ~ […]
May 13, 2019
Sex on a Spreadsheet
As of late, I don’t have time to write a book proposal. But that doesn’t stop the ideas from coming. These two titles have been making their way around my brain for a while. This is my process: I think of the title first and go from there. I posted both book titles on Instagram […]
February 18, 2019
The Sunday Telegraph (on Monday)
I was interviewed recently by The Sunday Telegraph about writing love letters
December 20, 2018
Enjoy the Season of New Beginnings!
Photos and design by Andrea Krout Photography.
November 25, 2018
If I Could Turn Back Time
If I had it all to do over again (and by all I mean launch LetterLover), I would have included a newsletter. When I first started this site in 2005, I offered Letter of the Week as a way to keep audiences coming back for more. It didn’t work very well, and I’m not even […]
November 24, 2018
The Breakup
After 11 years of being in a serious relationship with Facebook and 9 years of casually dating Twitter, I’m ending my relationship with both of them. Here’s how and why … I broke up with Twitter on 11/16. Done. Deactivated. 1. You can’t edit Tweets and that’s always been a minor bother. 2. The notification […]
October 30, 2018
E-Thank You Notes
A friend of mine sent me a thank you note last week, over email. I’m not judging. I’m praising! She thanked me for the 40th birthday present I gave her, the 4-hour trip I took to attend the party, and she attached photos to liven up the message. I have received more handwritten thank you […]
September 26, 2018
The Fig Tree
Below is a passage from Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar. She poetically describes the stress of choice and how gaining one experience means losing another. The good news is, in the 21st century, choosing one fig doesn’t mean saying no the ALL the others but it still means saying no to many of the others. […]
August 20, 2018
When the Church Goes to Confession
In 2006, The Episcopal Church issued a comprehensive, formal apology (a resolution) for its participation in the institution of slavery. They accepted full responsibility for past actions and admitted they used scripture to justify their actions. “…we express our most profound regret that (a) The Episcopal Church lent the institution of slavery its support and […]
July 16, 2018
The Dumbest Thing I Ever Heard…Is True
It was December 2013 when I submitted the following essay as a guest blog for a website called Indie Book Week. Recently I clicked on the link and IBW was no more. Websites come and they go. C’est la vie. I’d like the essay to live somewhere, so I post it here. The Dumbest Thing […]
