Just Me

    Today is the last day of July and all I can say is GOOD FREAKING RIDDANCE!! Between bad things happening with the press, my business partner’s personal crisis still going on, and my brother passing away, it has not been a good month for me on a personal level. And, yes, of course I had some rejections with the writing, but I get those every month, so they didn’t ruin my month for me. Those three other things did.   It was the loss of my brother that drove me to writing even more than usual, but I also continued to read every day as well. Reading brings me comfort and a sense of peace. It is also a nice way for me to escape from the bad stuff in life, not to mention helping to take my mind off of things.   Some of the books I read this month were children’s books. In my defense, that box of books for kids was RIGHT THERE. I couldn’t just ignore them! So I grabbed a bunch that interested me and sat down to read them.   This is true except for one...

  Two things happen when I face failure.   The first thing that happens is that I get angry. It’s natural to get angry. Anger is a very human emotion. So, I allow myself to feel all the bad feelings that come with failure: Anger, disappointment, frustration and sadness. I might even throw out an “Every time I try to DO something!” when faced with failure.   The second thing that happens is that I pick myself up, dust myself off, and carry on.   Whether or not moving forward means trying again or biding my time until a new solution comes along remains to be seen. But one thing is certain: If this particular thing that I tried to do is important enough to me, I will not give up on it. I mean, I will if the other parties involved have given up too, but if it’s a thing that’s all on me, then I won’t give up on it.   That was the situation for me recently, when I was trying to help out a friend who runs an orphanage in Uganda.   Bob Rich i...

When I left the house today to pick up my oldest from work, he wanted to know if we could go a couple of places before going home. I had some food prepared for my lunch (as well as for him) so I requested we go home first to eat before running errands.   It’s a good thing I did, because the timing worked out! I didn’t realize it, but right when we set off for those errands, it would be a while before we returned home for good!   So while we ate our food, he and I were both working on projects – him on his laptop and me on the family PC. (I was doing some work on my poetry books. A new poetry book was born today! It came out of a poetry book that I was unable to figure out in the past but now I figured it out. Yay!)   After we were done, we left. We went to the high school to pick up my youngest. From there, we got gas in the care and went to a grocery store. My oldest was getting some things and, since I’d been craving cheesecake for days, I asked him if he wo...