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I have written well over fifty blogs now, and at times it gets harder and harder to think of topics I wish to discuss and share. This week was one of those. I just simply did not feel inspired or motivated even to try to create a new blog after I finished my mini-series about traveling. So I decided to spend my time today reading some of my old poems. Surprisingly one of them seemed to fit…..
There will be no blog this week.
I had nothing about which to speak.
The Egyptians shared nothing new with me,
And the Moroccans did not help me either you see.
I counted on them to share something new
So I would…..
Today’s blog was inspired this week because of my genuine love and respect for Egypt and the citizens there. I decided to share a poem I wrote just a few days ago. I hope you will enjoy it and the attached photos. I hope after you read it, you will want to visit my second home one day. Egypt is truly a magical land not just because of its amazing past civilizations but because of the modern…..
So many of us now spend a large part of our days and our lives on the internet. Our jobs require us to use business programs, email addresses, and online business conference sites. Our schools use various sites on the internet as sources for learning new information and teaching new skills. You would think we would be tired of being online at the end of a busy work day or school day. However, Facebook, Twitter,…..
God gave us the greatest gift of all—our minds and the ability to think, to learn, to create, and to IMAGINE whatever we desire. Most of us spend at least part of our day daydreaming about the kind of life we would love to live. I know I am a huge daydreamer. I have been this way since I was a young girl growing up in a small town in northern West Virginia. I would sit in my bedroom for…..
How other people perceive us is important to most of us. As children, we seek the approval of our parents and our childhood friends and try so hard to be the best we can and not disappoint them. When we become adults and marry, this desire to please is transferred to our spouses and our children. We want to be the best wife or husband and mother or father, and in this process we often lose the vision of who…..
One of the messages of my book revolves around that all important word LOVE. Every day on television and radio and in newspapers and magazines, we are exposed to so many examples of HATRED and crimes committed against innocent people. It has gotten to the point that I try to avoid this exposure to the news whenever I can. It always saddens me because I try to remain as positive as I can each and every day…..
As a new author who has published her first book, I have learned so much. Often, the process was stressful, perplexing, and even painful at times. Being a novice in the publishing world, I decided to self-publish which is the trend for most new writers. Waiting for a traditional publisher could take many years due to the thousands of books sent to these companies each year, and then the publisher could request rewrites which also slows down the process…..
Having many Egyptian friends, I have begun to understand some of their dreams and hopes for their future in their new democratic Egypt. However, I continued to be interested in their thoughts so I literally posted a Facebook Questionnaire to obtain their specific dreams and goals. These were the questions and the assignment I gave to them:
I want to do a blog about your future dreams and plans since Egypt has become a democracy. Please answer…..
As a high school Language Arts and English teacher for thirty-seven years in American public schools, I have taught many courses in all types of writing—short stories, dramas, poems, research papers, essays, and other expository forms. I have evaluated thousands of student compositions and written projects, but I never really had the time to sit down and write myself until after my retirement in May 2008. At first, I only wrote a few personal essays about my life for my…..