Courtney Lynn Mroch's Blog, page 12
March 8, 2020
Weather Sirens Are Only Meant for Outdoor Warnings?
Another way I’ve been humbled in the wake of the tornadoes that tore through Nashville was to learn I believed in a myth about weather warning sirens. Namely, I thought they were supposed to alert us to tornadoes, which they are, but I thought that […]
March 5, 2020
Humbled in the Wake of the Storm
The first check-in came by text from my friend Sheila at 5:28 am. The first Facebook check-in came by way of a request from two Middle Tennessee friends, Teresa and Donna, using the Facebook disaster feature to ask if I was safe. Which was funny, […]
February 4, 2020
Unexpected First Acceptance of 2020
Last week I was going through my Google Alerts looking for links to share on the socials for Haunt Jaunts and A Haunt Mess like I do when I came across one for 1428 Elm, a FanSided company. It wasn’t the first time I was […]
February 3, 2020
New Decade, Big Changes
In late September of 2019 I came off the tennis court, sat down, went to swing my left leg out and…ouch. What was that pain? I’ve had wonky knees for years. Since my early teens. Arthritis. First felt it when I was 14 during my […]
January 31, 2020
Fiction Friday: Banasack the Super Pole vs. The Alamogordo UFO
My dad, Ralph Mroch, inspired this story. Somehow he nicknamed himself Banasack (pronounced Banacheck). Or did someone else do it? I can’t remember. I just know it was a name he’d call himself sometimes. I also don’t remember if the “Super” was part of it, […]
January 20, 2020
The Case of the Mysterious Optimism Mug
Several years ago –I don’t even know how many it’s been exactly now, but at least two or three– this fun mug with the suggestion to “Practice Reckless Optimism” showed up in my mail. I don’t even remember if it was around my birthday or […]
August 29, 2019
Back Seat Car Alarms
I think there’s a reason I never had kids. Besides the fact I never tried to get pregnant. If it was meant to be, I firmly believe the universe would’ve conspired in ways to make it happen. But they didn’t. So here I am, child […]
August 22, 2019
Do you show up passively or powerfully?
I have this mediation app on my phone, Meditation Studio, that I love. I got it free for a year through my Starbucks app a few years back. Even now it amazes me how it can calm, center, and ground me –all from an app! […]
August 21, 2019
New Fave Game: Select a Wireless Network Snooping
My new favorite pastime is snooping available WiFi network’s when I’m out of range of mine. I discovered how amusing this could be on a trip to Boston this summer. I have an iPhone so I’m not sure if other phones do it, but every […]
July 12, 2019
A Pen Name?
Recently I shared that I made it to the first phase selection of an upcoming Chicken Soup book Think Positive, Live Happy. Great news, right? Yes! I love seeing emails that validate someone else thought something I wrote might be worthy of publishing. However, while […]
