courage | courage
Jan.30.2010
Tonight, I agree with author Maya Angelou in that "there is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
I have concluded that other than breathing, courage is a must. Just the act of "acting, as if pretending" to be courageous takes COURAGE. Life is all about...
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Jan.27.2010
Jen, my daughter, and me were in the garage partaking in some nicotine when my daughter began to share a conversation she had with my 4-year-old grandson, Lex, the evening before.
Lex affirmed to his momma that he used to sleep in the bassinet that is now in the playroom downstairs.
Yes, my...
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Jan.15.2010
Be entertained! Listening to the dynamic speaker, Jo-Anne Vandermeulen, as she sizzles with energy discussing various promotional and writing topics. For the second half of the show, she encourages YOU to interact with her. Introduce yourself. Authors - This is your chance. Deliver your author...
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Dec.21.2009
Having been a teacher for five years and an editor for more than sixteen, it’s no secret Mary Verdick loves words. The author of numerous children’s books and stories, this prolific lady has also penned four adult fiction novels. Her latest release, As Long as He Needs Me −a psychological novel of...
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Dec.16.2009
I wish I could blog about how thrilled I am to have completed my first semester at Vermont College, what a ride it's been, how much I've learned, how much better my writing has gotten, all of that good stuff, but today, this week's professional accomplishment has been entirely overshadowed by...
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Nov.07.2009
Do you have those moments when you have to remind yourself that you have faced worse challenges - and made it through? Thus, this (challenge) too shall pass?
I remember times in my past when it seemed hopeless, that all was lost. Looking back, I see where I stepped into that situation, suffered,...
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Sep.29.2009
We all have felt it. The surly teenager that doesn’t acknowledge your presence, the elderly parent that practices selective hearing, or the spouse that responds “Did you say something?” after you pour out your most closely held feelings. Some we chalk up to stages of life. Others we brush off to...
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Sep.24.2009
I read "Courage of Fear" very quickly during my recent vacation, and as I turned to the final page, I had such mixed emotions that I thought about the characters, the events in the story, and wondered about "what might have been" for days afterward.
And then I puzzled over the...
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Sep.21.2009
"[A] work of art, like a life, can fail in two different ways: either, in terror of admitting that there is any chaos, it takes refuge in some arbitrary conscious order it has acquired ready-made from others or thought up itself on the spur of the moment . . . or, lacking the courage and the...
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Sep.13.2009
As a recovering journalist, I still find my decades-old j-school training occasionally reminding me how lazy --even cowardly-- I often feel these days. It nags particularly loudly when I catch myself personally avoiding that most rare of today's journalistic attributes: an impartial fairness in...
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