“Just as ripples spread out When a single pebble is dropped into water, The actions of individuals can have far-reaching effects.“ — Dalai Lama In writing a book and living a life “It Takes a Village.” I recognized this village in the acknowledgement chapter at the end of my book – A Leap Year of […]
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Tomorrow night my first book launch party, for my first book – A LEAP YEAR of FIRSTS, is being thrown for me. Never having had a launch party I googled what to do at a book launch party. One of the points was to read an except from the book for your guests. Following was
An Except (March 20th, 2020) for my Book Launch Read More »
Being a newly minted author has presented opportunities this past week to meet and be introduced to some amazingly inspirational people. Blessed. I would like to share these meetings and introduce you to these inspirations. I was referred to and was interviewed by Mary Fran Bontempo and Kristin Smedley for their Podcast called “Brilliantly Resilient”
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I had to share the following email (and unfortunately for you the picture above) that I received shortly after the publishing of my first book last month. I have received a few similar emails from the few that have read it. When people heard that I was doing a Leap Year of Firsts and writing
A Goal Achieved in writing my “First” book! Read More »
Have you always wanted to do or experience something, but never seemed to get around to it? Where you curious of what something was like, but didn’t take the time to find out? What are you waiting for? There is no time like the present to experience something for the FIRST time. A New Year
New Year’s Resolutions? How about a “First?” Read More »
I’d like to share an except from my new book – A Leap Year of Firsts. I thought this following first was timely and topical. I hope you agree…. “I had obviously heard of and maybe caught a few scenes here or there over time of the movie It’s a Wonderful Life, but I had
My “First” from December 25th, 2020: Watched It’s a Wonderful Life Read More »
“A Leap Year of Firsts” Have you ever wanted to write a book? I did. So I set off on a year-long quest to write about what I had just committed to – doing something for the “first” time in my life – EVERY DAY in 2020! Little did I know that a world changing
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