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  • I Knew Your Daddy, Little Girl (Intro & Excerpt from the novel)

    The premise for a book can often appear out of nowhere, random and unconnected to any previous thought or idea. But sometimes the Universe sets up an opportunity for a story to be told ‘way down the road.’ We may not understand at the time just why this needs to be, but I guarantee that… Read more

  • A Forever Place In My Heart

    (This piece originally appeared on Re-Group.guru on April 27, 2022) How many times can my heart break after losing a precious furbaby? Over and over and over. And each time feels like the first. But what those precious beings leave with me is another layer of unconditional love and acceptance for all my quirks and… Read more

  • It’s a Yin-Yang ‘thang’

    YIN: S’up Buttercup? YANG: Omg…life sucks! Can’t sleep, never enough money, underappreciated, and nobody ‘gets’ me. And then, there’s the crap thrown at me by other people. It’s never ending!  YIN: Well, you know that you alone choose how you handle what is ‘thrown’ at you, what you do with the crap…yours or theirs. YANG:… Read more

  • A Little Cat named Gigi (by Ashley R. Smith)

    A Little Cat named Gigi (by Ashley R. Smith)

    Animals are here to teach us lessons. I often remember that little pearl of wisdom given by my mother during one of our many conversations about the animals that have been in our lives. Sometimes when my emotions get the better of me, guilt overtakes what I know to be true: that I am a… Read more

  • Sinead’s Voice

    Sinead’s Voice

    (Photo: Linda Brownlee/The Guardian) I hadn’t listened to Sinéad O’Connor for many years, until today. That voice calls for strong lyrics. A lyric that spits out the truth and hurls it in your face. A lyric like The Times They Are a-Changin’.  This morning I scrolled through images and videos of her early work and… Read more

  • WHACK! Sorry…got your attention though

    I confess. I am one stubborn human. Why it still surprises me that it takes a darn village of Spirit peeps to get my attention is a head shaker. But here it is. Another huge head shaker.  I have these pesky physical symptoms that are chronic. (Hate that word, chronic. How ‘bout “ongoing” symptoms.) They’ve… Read more