Category: Blogging

• January 5, 2018

  Buttontapper Challenge: Day 5

  Audacious Goals – Let’s make some goals! Let’s make them SMART and BIG! Hoo-boy. This one is tough. I have some big goals, even audacious ones, but the idea of writing them down as SMART goals, well that’s just plain scary, like climbing up a mountainside scary. Any goal I can write up as a […]
• January 4, 2018

  Buttontapper Challenge: Day 4

  Big Dreams – What are you dreaming about doing this year? Tell us about something you’ve been obsessed with, or that you’re just beginning to visualize. Completing the first draft of my novel-in-progress is my big dream this year. I thought I had almost completed a first draft a couple of years back. But the […]
• January 3, 2018

  Buttontapper Challenge: Day 3

  This Year’s Plans – What have you got planned for 2018? Show us some pictures of your planner! I have one big event planned and one goal I hope to complete in 2018. The big event is a trip to Norway with my sister. We won’t be taking a typical tour package. My sister has […]
• January 2, 2018

  Buttontapper Challenge: Day 2

  New Year’s Resolutions? – Do you or don’t you? Why or why not? I don’t do New Year’s Resolutions. Why not? Because I haven’t figured out the secret of selecting meaningful resolutions that will end with success. If I can succeed at following a resolution all year long, it is likely something lacking in significance. […]
• January 1, 2018

  Buttontapper Challenge: Day 1

  Introductions – Introduce yourself! Tell us a little bit about yourself and why you decide to join the challenge. The first 21 years of my life I spent trying to get away from my home town. Life in my home town was boring. All I had to do to prove this was turn on the TV […]
• December 24, 2017

  Merry Christmas

  To Sandy, From Henry: A Christmas Story About his paintings, Norman Rockwell said, “The view of life I communicate in my pictures excludes the sordid and ugly. I paint life as I would like it to be.” I grew up in Norman Rockwell’s small town America, where celebrating Christmas was wonderful and beautiful. This is a […]
• December 18, 2017

  Buttontapper Challenge for January

  January’s Theme: New Year, New You! Starting in January 2018, author Laura Roberts will be hosting monthly challenges on her website Buttontapper Press and will comment on the Buttontapper Challenge page on Facebook. I’m joining her challenge. My goal will be to post daily, but I recognize that sometimes life gets in the way, and I’m […]
• December 14, 2017

  An Early Christmas Present

  This week I received an early Christmas present, the kind that no amount of money can buy. I found a comment on one of my earlier posts, E is for Eritrea, from one of the boys on Team USA while I was in Eritrea in 2004. And that means I also have a way to […]
• November 23, 2017

  Giving Thanks

  Photo credit: Anthony Rossbach