I ended yesterday talking about my failure on month four of my journey toward Thinking Healthy Not Thin. It took me a long time to finish this post because how can you put a positive spin on failure? I mean,…
Success. There are many, many ways to measure success. Heck, there are as many ways to measure success as there are Facebook memes about the topic and motivational posters hanging on office walls. But really, how do you measure success,…
As much as any character in I’ll Always Miss You—Rainy Hill has its own distinct personality. This fictional town is a composite of my Granny’s old neighborhood in Bryan Texas, a winding, tree-lined place with 50’s style ranch houses and…
I am so excited to host fellow Harmony Ink author, Christopher Hawthorne Moss as he shares this EXCELLENT essay about being transgender throughout history. Times change. People don’t. Well, that’s mostly true. The truism applies to every aspect of…
As month three of my Thinking Healthy Not Thin blog continues, I’ll take a moment to reflect on the past two months. I’ve tackled drinking water, which I’m very happy to say I am quite successful with. In month two,…
My second month of Thinking Healthy Not Thin has been focused on sleep. So how is is it going? Well, the challenge—as I’d expected—is proving to be a lot more work than drinking a gallon of water a day. Why?…
Cupid has been a lot of things over the centuries. Firstly, he started out as the Greek god, Eros. In classical Greek art, he appears as a slender, winged youth. Later, he took on the chubby appearance and the bow…
SLEEP Oh, yes….that elusive journey to the Land of Nod. That blissed out state we as adults, especially woman, sometime only witness in babies and puppies. Sleep is a fundamental biological requirement for all humankind. In fact, Maslow’s Hierarchy of…
Hello everyone! For months I have been hinting about my upcoming YA novel and today I would like to make everything official. Last summer a story idea came to me, one that literally had me waking up in tears. Compelled…
MONTH ONE UPDATE Well, it has been three weeks since I picked up the water gauntlet. How is my gallon a day going? I am very happy to announce that I have done it EVERY DAY! Whoo hoo! Now, if…