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December 28, 2013
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December 19, 2013
Buy Nashville – Part Four and Get a FREE eBook
I’m so excited to have Nashville – Part Four – Pleasure in the Rain out before Christmas! This book series has allowed me to meet some of the world’s nicest readers! Thank you to each and every one of you who have let me know how much you’ve come to enjoy CeCe, Holden, Thomas, Hank Junior and Patsy! That means so much to me.
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Here’s what wonderful reader Keyla Finley Handley said about Nashville – Part Four! “Ok, I just finished this book! It was so good! I cried a little laughed a little, then I was just happy at the end! I am so excited too about Thomas’ story next. I will be looking for a release date! I hope it soon! I also love the road you took with Case. I am trying not to give away details, but you could do him a book as well! Love, Love, Love this series and that you have songs to go with each book!! I hope CeCe and Holden’s story continues as well in the next book!They are just so much fun! Can’t wait for the next book! I know Thomas will find love as well! Awesome job as always!”
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December 10, 2013
Attitude of Gratitude
We have it so good.
We do, we really do.
On any given day it’s easy enough to find something to complain about. As human beings, it comes awfully easy to us. We don’t like it when things don’t go our way. When our seat gets bumped on the airplane, and we end up in the back right next to the bathroom door. When the electric bill slides into our email and shows an increase of 25% since last month’s bill. When it snows and our vacation gets delayed. When we have to sit in the waiting room at the doctor’s office for an extra hour because they’ve had a couple of emergencies.
Complaining comes naturally, and we’re all guilty of it. We like our conveniences, we like our comforts. We like our lives free of interruptions and unexpected curveballs.
I think about my grandparents and how utterly different their lives were from mine.
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My Grandma Holland grew up in a family with ten children during the Great Depression years. Her mother died after childbirth when she was 13 years old, and I remember vividly the stories she used to tell me about all the things her papa did to make ends meet and put food on the table, how she and her sisters helped to raise the younger children and the infant baby born right before her mother’s death.
I remember my Grandma Johnson telling me about the schoolhouse a mile or two away from where she lived. She and her brothers and sisters would walk there every day and did so until the seventh grade, after which there was no more schooling available to them. After that, she began working, taking care of her aging parents and getting married when she was sixteen years old.
After she’d had four children of her own, she worked at the cafeteria in the local hospital. One night when she had worked late, her car had a flat tire on the way home. It had been snowing for a while and was very cold outside. The tires had chains on them to increase the traction on the snow and help the car not to slide off the road. Alone on that country road, with nothing so convenient as a cellphone for dialing 911 or calling a tow truck, she removed the chain from the tire, hauled the spare out of the trunk, jacked the car up and changed the tire herself.
My grandmother has always been a strong woman, but I would wilt at the prospect of doing what she did that night.
My Grandpa Johnson left her and four young children at home when he was called to serve in Germany...
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For prolonged periods of time my Grandma didn’t know whether he was alive or not. He was captured by the Germans and held as a prisoner of war until the war ended. He watched one of his buddies wolf down so many of the donuts brought to them by the Red Cross upon their release, that he died because his body was used to eating almost nothing.
I’m thankful that my grandparents told me these things about their lives. I know for a fact that it has shaped my thinking about thankfulness, appreciation and gratitude for what I have and for the things I haven’t had to do in my own life.
Everyone has difficulties. There’s no such thing as a free ride in this life. That’s a given, but in comparison, well, there is no comparison to this point in my life or my children’s.
And so I think I’m obligated to pass down my grandparent’s stories about their lives and what they lived through. I think it makes me obligated to live my life with an attitude of gratitude. Working on that.
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December 9, 2013
Jane Austen Girl – New Release
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The very last thing on Grier McAllister’s Someday List is going back to Timbell Creek, Virginia, the town where she grew up. Timbell Creek holds too many bad memories for her, memories finally put to rest with a successful image consultant business in New York City and a hefty therapy bill. When an opportunity to choose a “Jane Austen Girl” for a visiting duke falls in her lap, the only catch that she must be from Grier’s hometown, Grier tells herself she’ll do what she needs to do and then leave it all behind for good.
But Grier doesn’t count on finding that her mother is no longer the person she used to be. She certainly doesn’t plan on falling for an old boyfriend’s really hot brother! And it isn’t long before she begins to realize Timbell Creek is not only a part of who she was, but might be a part of who she is as well.
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September 25, 2013
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September 21, 2013
Watch The Newsroom: This is Good Writing
I have a favorite new TV show, and it’s called The Newsroom.
I caught an episode of it on a flight back from France. I had heard it mentioned but never looked into it. During my nine-hour flight, I decided to give it a try. I’m so glad I did.
The Newsroom, available on HBO, is a character-driven show that shows us some very real people with very real lives. They are successful in their careers but each tote plenty of personal baggage into the newsroom every day.
Season One and Season Two are as good as TV drama gets, and even though it is a drama, there are many laugh-out loud moments.
Jeff Daniels is utterly convincing as ACN anchor Will McAvoy. Although we initially see him as a first class jerk, we soon enough begin to see that he is a jerk with a heart. His executive producer, MacKenzie McHale, is also the ex love of his life. Their history provides for plenty of tension and spark-filled dialogue. My next favorite character is Charlie Skinner. He’s smart and comes out with some hilarious one-liners.
Aaron Sorkin’s characters are so well-drawn that they actually feel like friends. That’s good writing.
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Love is All You Need
I don’t know about you, but the movies I seem to love most are the ones I stumble across by accident. Love is All You Need is one of those movies. I saw it listed as a recommendation for me in iTunes. I’m so glad I clicked that link.
This is a jewel of a story. Phillip(Pierce Brosnan) and Ida(Trine Dyrholm) are two people who have wandered off the path of anything resembling happiness in life. After losing his wife, Phillip retreated into work and resigned himself to pretty much that as his source of fulfillment. Ida has just finished treatment for cancer and is unsure of her future. To top it off, her husband(LOSER!) has left her for a younger woman.
Phillip and Ida literally collide in a parking garage on the way to a wedding in Italy where they discover his son and her daughter are the bride and groom. Phillip is anything but nice to Ida at first. It’s hard to imagine at that point anyone can soften his hard shell.
Pierce Brosnan and Trine Dyrholm
But Ida is one of those people who exude that wonderful inner elixir of calm and fortitude that further her appeal with every encounter. A particularly touching scene in the movie takes place when Ida leaves her wig and clothes on a secluded Italian beach to go swimming in the cool sea. Phillip has been looking for her and finding her there, is totally humbled by her pure enjoyment of the experience.
This is a character-driven story, my favorite kind of romance. Both Phillip and Ida are wonderfully drawn, layered with all of the things that make us human, at once fragile and unimaginably strong.
The final scene in the movie is one of my all-time favorites. Beautiful, beautiful love story. If this sounds like it might be for you, don’t miss it!
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September 14, 2013
Monaco: What It Looks Like There
Monaco really is a jewel of a place. The September afternoon I was fortunate to be able to spend there was just picture perfect. The people were friendly and nice, the views amazing in nearly every direction. If you would like to see more pics and what it looks like there, please click here.
September 10, 2013
The Louvre Museum Even Has a Starbucks
There’s something almost reverent about the Louvre Museum – Musee du Louvre – in Paris. The first time I visited was a dozen years ago when I was much less far along on my creative journey. But even then I felt the specialness of it. Centuries and centuries of creativity, some of the best offered up by humanity, housed in one palatial setting that is visually worthy of the treasure entrusted to its sturdy walls. I think I feel it even more so on my second visit to the museum. I am inspired, awestruck and deeply appreciative of what has been brought together here. Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is, of course, the most famous draw. You would be remiss to leave the building without seeing her, but there are so many other simply incredible works to see.
It’s humbling to witness such overwhelming evidence of how much has been created before our own presence here on earth.
Centuries pass and the work endures. I wonder if the artists and sculptors had any idea or even a hope that their art would last so far beyond their own lives. That people would be walking through a place such as the Louvre admiring what they left to civilization.
They couldn’t have known. Who dares to dream that big? But it’s incredible nonetheless to realize what an impact an artist can make by putting his or her vision onto canvas, paper or stone. Powerful stuff, isn’t it?
And, oh yes, the Louvre even has a Starbucks where you can have a coffee when your feet begin to protest the acres of brilliance you have viewed. Rest a little. Head back for more. Perfect.
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I love to read, and I love to write stories about people I might actually want to know in real life! Click here to download a FREE copy of my book Good Guys Love Dogs and join my mailing list for announcements of other giveaways and new releases! http://inglathcooper.com/good-guys-love-dogs-free-gift
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The Louvre Even Has a Starbucks
There’s something almost reverent about the Louvre Museum – Musee du Louvre – in Paris. The first time I visited was a dozen years ago when I was much less far along on my creative journey. But even then I felt the specialness of it. Centuries and centuries of creativity, some of the best offered up by humanity, housed in one palatial setting that is visually worthy of the treasure entrusted to its sturdy walls. I think I feel it even more so on my second visit to the museum. I am inspired, awestruck and deeply appreciative of what has been brought together here. Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is, of course, the most famous draw. You would be remiss to leave the building without seeing her, but there are so many other simply incredible works to see.
It’s humbling to witness such overwhelming evidence of how much has been created before our own presence here on earth.
Centuries pass and the work endures. I wonder if the artists and sculptors had any idea or even a hope that their art would last so far beyond their own lives. That people would be walking through a place such as the Louvre admiring what they left to civilization.
They couldn’t have known. Who dares to dream that big? But it’s incredible nonetheless to realize what an impact an artist can make by putting his or her vision onto canvas, paper or stone. Powerful stuff, isn’t it?
And, oh yes, the Louvre even has a Starbucks where you can have a coffee when your feet begin to protest the acres of brilliance you have viewed. Rest a little. Head back for more. Perfect.
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I love to read, and I love to write stories about people I might actually want to know in real life! Click here to download a FREE copy of my book Good Guys Love Dogs and join my mailing list for announcements of other giveaways and new releases! http://inglathcooper.com/good-guys-love-dogs-free-gift
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