May God bless and keep you always,
May your wishes all come true.
May you always do for others and let others do for you.
May you build a ladder to the stars and climb on every rung, 
May you stay forever young.

Bob Dylan

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In my childhood home, the library was the room where we had the Christmas tree. It stood in the bay window, and for that month I couldn’t lie down on the window seat cushions there. The rest of the year I loved doing just that, drifting into half sleep, listening to the house, my family, [...]

This Christmas I will get into the spirit of it. Today there is choir practice, and I am already creating hand made presents in my head. Now just where am I going to set up my work station? I’m already there. Nothing too ambitious – just some silly, fun, sweet refrigerator magnets. And some gift [...]

Whoa!!! For about the umpteenth time in the last number of years, someone on the phone told me I have a great speaking voice and I should DO SOMETHING WITH IT! I am starting today! With my own stories. …and anyone else’s that seem good to me. I contacted my web developer to get help [...]

..and I am suddenly 12 years old at Virginia Beach with my family again. Wheeeewwwwwwwwwww…. ·٠•●♥ * *♥●•٠·˙ ·٠•●♥ * *♥●•٠·˙·٠•●♥ * *♥●•٠·˙∞ ♥ ∞ ∞ ♥ ∞ It’s easy to be in love. Today my curtains are billowing, the sound is the wind in the trees, God’s in His Heaven, All’s right with the [...]

Once upon a time there was a girl named Ariel. Her favorite thing was travel. She knew how to time travel – “It’s easy!” she would say. AND she knew how to hop dimensions. “That’s a little harder. It’s just the getting started part that is tricky.” One day she was traveling in the outer [...]

This is a group of stories I wrote to play a game with the kids on my bus. For a while I drove a schoolbus. It was an ordeal getting a commercial license and then learning the ropes of the job, but I came away with a great sense of accomplishment. Plus I drove a [...]

If you are unhappy where you are, you may be thinking you are “out of your comfort zone”. Nah – you are still hanging on. Once you really get bumped, you feel free! It’s an experience, not a theory.

Sometimes I feel so good I just gotta tell someone!