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Last Day Of The Year

As this year comes to a close I am blessed to be where I am. I am not the richest person in the world, I haven'tmade ityet. But it's thelast day of the yearand I want it to be a good day. I want to spend thelast day of the yearwith my family. I want thelast day of the yearto be one that I look back on tomorrow and feel like I…

New Year’s Resolutions

Every year I make new year's resolutions. I keep some of them but honestly I'm pretty shitty with follow through most of the time. A lot of us are, I bet. One thing that's helped me these last few months is really taking stock of my life and realizing that I'm getting older, and I wasn't getting anywhere with my lack of follow through. Follow…

The Prophet of Dreams Chapter 1-3

Chapter 1The funeral was unbearable. Talon sat stiffly next to his little brother and watched as his father's body was laid ceremoniously on the Altar of Life and the King of Fire prepared to make a speech. His throat hurt. He'd cried when they'd landed, and he'd seen the devastation on Timothy's face. This wasn't supposed to happen. His…

Book Review: Acheron by Sherrilyn Kenyon

I love this series.I love it with a passion that I can not even explain. I have read this series three times. I have read Acheron four times.There are some truly heartbreaking scenes in this novel that really propel the reader out of their comfort zone. For the majority of the book we follow along with Apostolos who was put into the womb of…

Absentia

The last few weeks, (months who am I kidding) have been very busy for me. I am an author on the side, haven't progressed to making it my full time job yet, no matter how much I would love to. I got a job with another non profit organization (I work for a youth athletic non profit as well) and it's been tumultuous at best since I've started working…

First Chapter of Cadence

I watched in silence. It consumed me the way it had in my mother's womb. It was muffled, a glaring silence that was only broken by the crack of his hand against her flesh. It was distended, as though I was hearing it as the fourth echo of an actual sound. I couldn't bear to watch as he fisted her hair in his hands, reared his meaty fist back, and…

Heartache

Sometimes life just throws things at you that you're completely unprepared to deal with or to handle. As a mom I think I do a pretty okay job being a parent. I take care of my kids, I work hard, I spend time with them. I volunteer doing things that are just for my kids. I schedule time around them. I work hard, but only because I know the future…

The realistic Pen…

So for quite a while I've been contemplating my "author" life and what that means for a career. Not much. To be honest with you being an author has thus far been a novel idea and not a full time career. That really pains me. I enjoy writing so much and wish I could make a good living at it, but the truth is that I've been…

IPA

So today I listened to the call featuring Tony Rush and got some fantastic information from it. The one thing that impacted me the most was listening to Tracy speak about Income Producing Activities. There are so many things in my life that are NOT income producing activities that I seriously let derail me from the activities that are income…

My Next Novel

There are so many things that I could do to help get my next novel done. The first would be to actually set aside time every day to write on it and get it finished and on its way to the publisher (me). I know that's what I have to do so what's stopping me from doing that? Well, nothing really. I'd like to be able to do it now but I feel like I've…