10/5/92 Reflections of a single woman in her early 20’s…and the most attractive mirror! Pressure is the stumbling block for most people.  The inability to complete a number of tasks in the time allotted or the inability to meet the obligations set forth from the very beginning. Once realized, it is increasingly more difficult to…

April Fools Day 2015 Telling your boss you quit your job and chiming in “April Fools!” ten seconds too late. Over-reacting if your boss says “you’re fired…April Fools!” as you throw a waste can at the wall. Saran Wrap over toilet seats in company bathrooms. Telling your spouse you are having an affair. Telling your…

3/31/15 My Birds Fly High I flew too high and singed my wings I won’t back down for anything When I think of you I know why I needed to I flew so high and touched the sun One day ends as another has begun I am not youYou can’t be me My Birds I…

Who doesn’t love it when their child embraces something they are passionate about…so I’m sharing a special blog, a very short story written by my ten-year-old son… Future Famous Author On Halloween night, I am thinking about the haunted house across the street.  I want to debunk a rumor that, whoever enters on Halloween night,…

TBT – 1992  1992 – At a time when I struggled to focus my passion and energies … funny how some things don’t change.  Life is a constant struggle, but no longer alone. People spend their entire lives trying to be someone they’re not.  Like the pages of a calendar, the pictures in a phone…

1994 GQ said “no thank you” I spent a decade as a single mom, raising my oldest…and trying to keep my sanity on the dating scene.  This was my perspective at the time and I’m sending it out there for my friend, Mandy Ciccarella.  If you’ve ever wondered what to expect, as a male, in…

1/15/94 I am of no origin Standing still in time and space Waiting for enlightenment Expecting wisdom, realizing ignorance Seeing the future repeating the past Trying to break the cycle without knowing the course Believing in everything, standing for nothing I think of me as a formidable one Capable of expression Yet the ability to…

Following my dreams “The difference between dreaming and making that dream a reality is subtle…it’s at the point where you go from hoping and wishing to going and getting.” MLR M

Among my Granny’s things when she passed away years ago, a few treasures found lingering.  A surprisingly intimate and old fashioned love letter representing 48 years of marriage.  So surprising, yet heartwarming to know there was so much more depth than her role as Granny in our lives: Love has no sense of time and…

In a world of shouting, sending out a whisper from 1992 The quiet spoken Christian heart lacks not conviction but courage in awe of the presence and respectfully enthralled The quiet spoken Christian heart lacks expression not emotion Loves not any less than those who profess but rather loves from within The quiet spoken Christian…